Industry groups urge administration to prioritize ISDS, IP protection in new NAFTA

Major industry groups are urging the Trump administration to reinforce the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism and intellectual property enforcement provisions in an updated North American Free Trade Agreement, arguing that doing so would bolster market access and investment protection for U.S. companies. In an Aug. 8 letter to top administration officials, the Coalition of Services Industries, the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and roughly 100 other industry groups argued in favor of the dispute-settlement mechanism, contending...