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Experts Gather at Ohio Northern University to Discuss Trade Agreement Issues.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2002
By Jon Chavez, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 15--ADA, Ohio -- While other aspects of the North American Free Trade Agreement get the most attention, the dispute resolution mechanisms have raised red flags in the way they can be used to supercede environmental and commerce laws, experts said yesterday.
In Canada, the dispute resolution that deals with foreign investment "has been fairly controversial because foreign investors have taken advantage of (it) in ways the countries didn't anticipate," said Gilbert Winham, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Winham a professor of government and political science at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and...
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