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Sunday 21 March 2010 By Sarah Anderson Source: guardian.co.uk US diplomats are no doubt eager to find something – anything – on which the Obama administration and China can agree. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that they appear eager to make progress in the seemingly sleepy arena of bilateral investment treaty (BIT) negotiations. It’s true these deals haven’t grabbed headlines in the past, but if US March 4, 2010 Philip Morris International believes Uruguay is Marlboro Country. On February 19, the tobacco giant filed a lawsuit against that country, charging that new health measures involving cigarette packaging amount to unfair treatment of the company. Uruguay’s new legislation, submitted in June 2009 and expected to go into effect in March 2010, requires that |
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We provide this documentation from the ICSID web page for a critical analysis. It includes the list of cases that this tribunal has filed and managed historically and until 2009.
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