{"id":16239,"date":"2025-04-30T14:35:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T12:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/?p=16239"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:06:39","slug":"controversial-ecuador-canada-trade-deal-concluded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2025\/04\/30\/controversial-ecuador-canada-trade-deal-concluded\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial Ecuador-Canada Trade Deal concluded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuador and Canada reportedly concluded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.international.gc.ca\/trade-commerce\/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux\/agr-acc\/ecuador-fta-ale-equateur\/summary-nego-resume.aspx?lang=eng\">free trade agreement<\/a> in January 2025. The agreement is supposed to contain a \u201ca comprehensive set of rules governing investor-state dispute settlement (<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips43'>ISDS<\/span>), including enhanced transparency of proceedings commitments.\u201d The news come despite the fact that, in April 2024, the citizens of Ecuador <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/articles\/press-release\/ecuador-referendum-rules-out-isds-return-underlining-public-support?q=articles\/statement\/ecuador-referendum-rules-out-isds-return-underlining-public-support-sustainable\">emphatically voted to keep Article 422 of the country\u2019s 2008 constitution<\/a>, which prevents Ecuador from using international arbitration to settle disputes between Ecuador and foreign investors or private individuals in international treaties or instruments.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips32','International Institute for Sustainable Development<!--more-->'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips33','Institut international du d\u00e9veloppement durable'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips34','Instituto Internacional para el Desarrollo Sostenible'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips43','investor\u2013state dispute settlement'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips58','soluci\u00f3n de controversias inversionista-Estado'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips63','Bilateral investment treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips70','free trade agreement'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips114','Sistema de Tribunales de Inversiones'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips117','European Union'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuador and Canada reportedly concluded a free trade agreement in January 2025.<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":16240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}