Sentence examples for settlements clauses from inspiring English sources

Labor in this term almost rebuffed a free-trade deal with China because the industrial wing is hostile to trade liberalisation on the grounds foreign workers will erode Australian labour standards and the progressive wing is in a lather about investor state dispute settlements clauses and sovereignty.

Investor-state dispute settlement clauses allow companies to access an international tribunal if they believe actions taken by a host government breach its investment obligations.

In June this year, Labor said if it won the election it would try to remove investor-state dispute settlement clauses from every trade agreement, and every bilateral investment treaty, that Australia has signed.

3. Their investor-state dispute settlement clauses give absolutely unjustified and dangerous powers to investors vis-à-vis the state.

But the controversy in this chapter will be focussed squarely on the inclusion of an investor state dispute settlement clause.

Or consider Phillip Morris's multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the Australian government over cigarette-packaging regulation, which uses an investor-state-dispute-settlement clause established in a 1993 free-trade agreement between Australia and Hong Kong.

Pharmaceuticals remains one of a number of contentious issues, which also includes the investor-state dispute settlement clause, wider intellectual property disputes, dairy trade, environmental protections and privacy obligations.

But in general, I believe that the investor-state dispute settlement clause should be dropped from these agreements.

He also played down the risk of the Australian government being sued under controversial investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses, pointing to carve-outs for health and environmental measures.

Campaigners fear that a controversial investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clause will allow private companies to sue the government bodies if they are prevented from making profits.

A key economic policy adviser to the federal government has said the Trans-Pacific Partnership has provisions of "questionable benefit" – including an investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clause allowing foreign corporations to sue the Australian government if they think the government has introduced or changed laws that hurt their commercial interests.