USMCA GMO Corn Panelists The U.S. and Mexico have agreed on the three jurists that will decide on Washington’s complaint about AMLO’s GMO corn ban. Hugo Perezcano Díaz is a former general counsel for international trade in Mexico’s Ministry of Economy. His work on investor-state dispute settlement cases may create some suspicions among American corn interests, but he is a defender of that approach to cross-border investments. He is also now deputy director of International Economic Law at CIGI, which produces peer-reviewed research in Canada. Christian Häberli has spent decades at the World Trade Institute in Switzerland where he has worked on scientific research including food safety. Jean Kalicki is an indep...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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Weighing in on strategic realignment
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