{"id":3711,"date":"2016-05-16T04:08:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T09:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itn.mattrock.ca\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2024-08-09T18:26:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T16:26:57","slug":"china-united-states-bit-isds-to-be-included-ongoing-negotiations-on-negative-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2016\/05\/16\/china-united-states-bit-isds-to-be-included-ongoing-negotiations-on-negative-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2013United States BIT: ISDS to be included; ongoing negotiations on negative lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2008, China and the United States have undergone 24 negotiation rounds for a bilateral investment treaty (<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips63'>BIT<\/span>). On March 3, 2016, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman noted that the \u201chigh standard\u201d BIT being negotiated is \u201cin many respects similar to the investment chapter of TPP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Echoing Froman\u2019s statement, on March 23, Chen Deming\u2014China\u2019s former Minister of Commerce\u2014announced that the two countries have resolved some key roadblocks in the negotiations and agreed to rely on international arbitration to resolve investor\u2013state disputes. However, Chen also acknowledged that some major conflicts remain, mainly over the negative list on market access.<\/p>\n<p>Both parties hope to conclude negotiations before the end of President Obama\u2019s term, and preferably in August or September, before the U.S. presidential election enters into a critical stage.<\/p>\n<p><em>Notes<\/em>:\u00a0The editorial team acknowledges, with many thanks, the contribution by Joe Zhang.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2016\/05\/16\/news-in-brief-23\/\">Read more News in Brief<\/a><\/em><!--more--><\/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('.classtoolTips60','Investment Treaty News'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips63','Bilateral investment treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips67','Energy Charter Treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips76','multilateral investment court'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips100','investissement direct \u00e9tranger'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2008, China and the United States have undergone 24 negotiation rounds for a bilateral investment treaty (<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips63'>BIT<\/span>).<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips63','Bilateral investment treaty'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[1932,1925,2119,2088],"class_list":["post-3711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bits","tag-investor-state-dispute-settlement-isds","tag-negative-lists","tag-trans-pacific-partnership-tpp"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}