Trump lawyers invoke BIT in Panama hotel dispute
Donald Trump speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC, in 2011. (Credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0))
Despite the Trump administration’s reported hostility to investor-state dispute settlement in the NAFTA renegotiations, the US president’s lawyers have invoked the protections of the US-Panama bilateral investment treaty in a letter to his Panamanian counterpart requesting intervention in a dispute over a luxury hotel.
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