Mr. Steve Verheul at the International Trade Committee

On February 5th, 2020. See this statement in context.

February 5th, 2020 / 4:20 p.m.

Chief Negotiator and Assistant Deputy Minister, Trade Policy and Negotiations, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Steve Verheul

I think that this wasn't simply a matter of the U.S. wishing to eliminate investor-state dispute settlement across the board in NAFTA. What the U.S. was mainly concerned about was eliminating investor-state dispute settlement in relation to Mexico. Their view was that it actually provided an incentive for investors to invest in Mexico rather than in the U.S. because it—

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