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To: Ben Ficklin

>>It doesn’t matter if it is a treaty or a trade agreement.

There is a method of dispute resolution and that is an arbitration panel and the each nation’s judiciary must enforce the arbitration panel’s judgement(s).<<

Doesn’t the question of “treaty or trade agreement” determine how hard it is to change or break and how it compares to laws?


643 posted on 09/12/2007 12:07:57 PM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words)
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To: gondramB
I'm not a lawyer.

But, I assume any treaty or trade agreement can be broken or withdrawn from. But, a bilateral treaty doesn't have a third party to resolve disputes.

The thing about these FTAs is that they are really Investor-State Trade agreements. And as they have proliferated and disputes have been settled, they have estabished a body of law, or precedents.

The is quite a bit of internet info on Investor-State Law and Investor-State Trade agreements.

657 posted on 09/12/2007 2:13:34 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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