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Foreign Direct Investment In Colombia, Juliana Gomez
Foreign Direct Investment In Colombia, Juliana Gomez
LLM Theses and Essays
After decisions 220/88 and 291/91 of the Andean Pact, Colombia enacted law 9 of 1991. Law 9/91 empowered the National Economic and Social Policy Council (COMPES), a private government consulting agency, to promulgate rules on foreign investment. In the same year, the COMPES promulgated resolution 51 which is the base of the foreign investment regulation in Colombia. The purpose of this study is to analyze the legal aspects of foreign investment of Colombia and compare them with the international standards in order to determine whether the Colombian regulation acts in accordance to those standards or even exceeds them. The standards …
An Efficient Method For Determining Jurisdiction In International Arbitrations, John Y. Gotanda
An Efficient Method For Determining Jurisdiction In International Arbitrations, John Y. Gotanda
John Y Gotanda
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Breaking The Barrier Between Regionalism And Multilateralism: A New Perspective On Trade Regionalism, Sungjoon Cho
Breaking The Barrier Between Regionalism And Multilateralism: A New Perspective On Trade Regionalism, Sungjoon Cho
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Breaking The Barrier Between Regionalism And Multilateralism: A New Perspective On Trade Regionalism, Sungjoon Cho
Breaking The Barrier Between Regionalism And Multilateralism: A New Perspective On Trade Regionalism, Sungjoon Cho
Sungjoon Cho
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Double Protection: The Case Against The "Byrd Amendment" Of U.S. Trade Law, Perry S. Bechky, Anne Macgregor
Double Protection: The Case Against The "Byrd Amendment" Of U.S. Trade Law, Perry S. Bechky, Anne Macgregor
Perry S. Bechky
Under the Byrd Amendment of 2000, all collected antidumping and countervailing duties must be distributed among U.S. companies that successfully petition for the imposition of those duties. The Byrd Amendment created an economic incentive for the proliferation of trade cases. A strong legal case can be made that the Byrd Amendment is inconsistent with WTO rules.
Beyond Eco-Imperialism: An Environmental Justice Critique Of Free Trade, Carmen G. Gonzalez
Beyond Eco-Imperialism: An Environmental Justice Critique Of Free Trade, Carmen G. Gonzalez
Carmen G. Gonzalez
The article contributes to the trade and environment literature by assessing the claim that industrialized country proposals to integrate environmental protection into the WTO trade regime constitute environmental imperialism - the imposition of industrialized country values and preferences on less powerful nations. This claim is usually based on two distinct premises. The first is that environmental protection is a luxury that poor countries can ill afford. The second is that wealthy countries have played a leadership role in the protection of the global environment. The article questions these assumptions. It argues that environmental protection is essential to well-being of the …