Mexico will increase its trade with Central America through the new Free Trade Agreement, which came into force on Saturday after being approved by three of the six countries involved, officials said. From Saturday, the new trade agreement will regulate exchanges between Mexico, Nicaragua and El Salvador, and is expected to expand to Honduras, Guatemala and Costa Rica once concluded the legal procedures necessary for the entry into force of the FTA. This Treaty unifies 98% of the rules establish...

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The Araúz Law Firm, Panama, and The Complutense University of Madrid, Department of Public & Private International Law, Spain, organized the III International Training Seminar on Trade & Investment Arbitration with Intra Caribbean mock arbitration, from August 20 to 25th, with the collaboration of ACP Legal, the Dominican President Leonel Fernandez's Foundation, FUNGLODE, two European Arbitration Institutions, CIAMEN & CIMA and many other sponsors. The course featured leading Hispan...

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Chaired by Mr. José Manuel BAROSO, President of the European Commission was held the second forum of the overseas regions of the European Union, which include Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Martin, Saint Barth, and French Guyana. To facilitate the regional integration of these territories, a partnership with the European Union was established. Mr. Victorin LUREL, French minister of overseas, the initiator of the OHADAC, the project of harmonization of business law in the Caribbean and the creati...

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Under the initiative of the Mexican Yearbook of International Law (AMDI), the prestigious National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), through its Institute for Legal Research (IIJ), as part of its ongoing Seminar of the Mexican Yearbook of International Law (SAMDI), invites the legal community to debate in its Table II on the OHADAC project of regional integration on next September 20 & 21. On the other hand, the Mexican Academy of Private International & Comparative Law and the Fre...

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We are delighted to announce the organisation under the patronage of the Illustre Collegi d'Advocats de Barcelona of the International Arbitration Congress that will be attended by many great figures of arbitration: Bernardo M. Cremades, Yves Fortier (Norton Rose Law Firm), Luis Martinez (ICDR), Antonio Hierro (Spanish Arbitration Club), John Beechey (ICC), Gonzalo Stampa and many others. The event will address several issues: recent trends and changes in the international arbitration rules, fin...

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