Guatemala Labor Ruling Delayed Again, Pushing Final Report To November

An arbitration panel handling a U.S. claim that Guatemala violated the labor chapter of the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been delayed again, a move that pushes the public release of the final report toward the end of the year. The Guatemala dispute is the first labor case the U.S. brought under a free trade agreement, and U.S. labor groups say it demonstrates that labor commitments in trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership are ineffective. According to a...