Apples and NZ Being Sued by US Multi-nationals ?

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Two of the recent issues that interested me were notification that Australia has until August 117th of this year to get organised to issue import permits for New Zealand apples.  Here is the URL for that post:

http://worldtradelaw.typepad.com/ielpblog/2011/02/implementing-australia-apples.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+ielpblog+(International+Economic+Law+and+Policy+Blog)


The other is the  investor-state dispute clause which allows multinational companies to sue governments if they lose profits as a result of new regulation - these are a feature of US trade deals.   According to this post New Zealand could get itself involved in these through accepting this clause in the TPP talks.  See the post for comments by John Key and Russel Norman:

http://worldtradelaw.typepad.com/ielpblog/2011/02/update-on-new-zealand-and-investor-state.html?utm_source