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...effort to win new trade-negotiating powers from Congress next month. That's because METHANEX, the Canadian company that makes a key ingredient of MTBE, is challenging California's ban under the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement. The case has raised doubts about whether a state can protect its drinking water as it sees fit. Do such health regulations amount to a trade barrier...
...Choquette asserts, "We believe the ban of MTBE was politically motivated" to favor the U.S.-made gasoline additive ethanol "and has no scientific merit." The company's director of investor relations, Brad Boyd, says, "California should make sure its underground gas tanks don't leak. That's what would protect the public...
...Methanex case is complicating Bush's efforts to win "trade promotion authority," which would require Congress to vote yes or no, without amendment, on any treaty the President offered. The idea is to protect hard-bargained agreements from pork-barrel politicking. The bill passed the House by only one vote last December, as even longtime free traders worried about the potential threat to the U.S. of the Methanex case and other investor challenges. Waving 5,000 pages of trade agreements, Representative Robert Matsui, a California Democrat, argued that new treaties could affect federal laws on matters from food safety...
American businesses want trade treaties to protect their property from seizure abroad. Says Stephen Canner, vice president of the U.S. Council on International Business (USCIB): "If there's a taking of property, a government has to pay." NAFTA's investor clauses were strengthened partly because American investors did not trust Mexico. "The idea was to protect factories from being taken over in some banana republic," says Segundo Mercado-Llorens, a labor lobbyist. "No one contemplated these provisions would be used to invalidate our environmental laws...
...response to any criticism of its actions in the Occupied Territories, Israel inevitably claims that its policies are necessary to prevent violence against its own citizens. Israel must protect its population—a Sisyphean task in these gruesome days. Yet its efforts to ensure the safety of Israelis must accord with the principles that are self-evident to any first year law student. A person is innocent until proven guilty. You cannot punish one person for the act of another, let alone punish an entire village for the acts of one individual...