Analysis: How the USMCA Changes Investor-State Dispute Resolution

摘要

For now, a dispute over international dispute resolution has been resolved. The United States, Mexico and Canada recently announced in a joint statement the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a trade deal intended to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. The new USMCA is the product of more than a year's worth of negotiation in which parties frequently disagreed on, among other things, investor-state dispute resolution.