POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Preliminary Ruling, List Of Gasoline Additives, North American Free Trade Agreement
Document Summary
Nafta unites canada, usa, and mexico in a free trade zone. It is nafta illegal to privately make a trade zone (company only allows sales to one certain location) Pro free trade: companies, industries (want to sell to a large amount of people) Canada has trade surplus, more exports than imports. Usa lost many workers because people moved to mexico and canada for lower labour costs. Target: any kind of govt that affects free trade. Resolves disputes between states (municipal, provincial, federal investors) Gives standing to corporations or investors to bring claims against government for regulations or laws that violate free trade. Disputes: those in which an investor or corporation claims that government laws or regulation violates free trade. Ethyl corp: chemical company challenged a canada wide-ban on import and trade of the gasoline additive mmt, a suspected neurotoxin. They used mmt in their gasoline, if they ban it then they are preventing their sales.
