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USMCA GMO Corn Panelists; Maritime Order

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...

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Infrastructure investment due diligence

On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.

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