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Junji Nakagawa (ed.), Transparency in International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement, USA and Canada, Routledge, 2013, 221 pp., ISBN 9780415528733, £100.00 (hardback) and ISBN 9780203077260, £66.28 (e-book)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2014

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References

1 United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Report of Working Group II (Arbitration and Conciliation) on the work of its 58th session, 4–8 February 2013, New York, UN GA A/CN.9/765, available at <http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/V13/808/19/PDF/V1380819.pdf?OpenElement>.

2 NAFTA Free Trade Commission, Notes of Interpretation of Certain Chapter 11 Provisions, 31 July 2001, para. 1a; NAFTA Free Trade Commission Statements on New Transparency Measures (Statement on Non-Disputing Party Participation), 7 October 2003; NAFTA Free Trade Commission, Joint Statement, ‘A Decade of Achievement’, 16 July 2004, available at <http://www.sice.oas.org/tpd/nafta/nafta_e.asp>.

3 See Rule 37 and Rule 32(2) of International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Rules of Procedure for Arbitration Proceedings (April 2006), available at <https://icsid.worldbank.org/ICSID/StaticFiles/basicdoc/partF.htm>.

4 See, e.g., Appellate Body Report, United States – Import Prohibition of Certain Shrimp and Shrimp Products, WT/DS58/AB/R, adopted 6 November 1998, at. 108; Appellate Body Report, United States – Imposition of Countervailing Duties on Certain Hot-Rolled Lead and Bismuth Carbon Steel Products Originating in the United Kingdom, WT/DS138/AD/R, adopted 7 June 2000, at. 42; Communication from the Appellate Body, European Communities – Measures Affecting Asbestos and Products Containing Asbestos, WT/DS135/9, 8 November 2000, at 2.

5 ICTSD reporting, ‘Dispute Settlement: US Proposal On Dispute Transparency Gets Cool Reception From WTO Members’, WTO Reporter, 11 September 2002; ‘Dispute Settlement: Developing Countries Outline Priorities For Reform Of WTO Dispute Procedure’, 12 September 2002; WTO Special Session of the Dispute Settlement Body, Report by the Chairman, JPB (08)/81, 18 July 2008.

6 UNCTAD Transparency, UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements (2004), at 36–7.