ISDS Case Map
Mexico
The UK signed a continuity trade deal with Mexico, its 31st-largest trading partner, preserving the benefits of the accord it had with the country through European Union membership.
Foreign investors harmed by trade measures may find relief by bringing investment arbitration claims
Vento's claims ultimately failed on the merits because Vento could not show irregularities in the Mexican tax authority's treatment of its investment.
Korean Deputy Foreign Minister will visit Mexico for talks with his counterpart and other officials over economic cooperation, including the resumption of bilateral free trade talks.
American capital brought high rates of chronic disease to Mexico which has led to a surging COVID-19 death toll.
The tribunal held that the Mexican authorities had not violated international commercial law or breached their commitments under treaties to which they were a party.
Odyssey filed the first memorial, alleging that Mexico wrongfully denied environmental approval of the ExO Phosphate project in breach of NAFTA.
The AFL-CIO is planning to file labor complaints against Mexico this month under the new US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement’s labor enforcement mechanism, the US union’s president said.
For the first time, an ISDS tribunal has qualified project finance as a foreign investment protected under an investment treaty.
Already, Mexico’s progressive reforms have made it an ISDS target. First Majestic, a Canadian silver mining company has been threatening Mexico for the last few years, under NAFTA’s Chapter 11.
For Mexican workers, farmers, and the poor, the pandemic and the new treaty replacing NAFTA are a devastating one-two punch.
