Elke Blodgett on tue 19 sep 00
Company (fwd)
brief excerpt with reference to MMT additives (long article full of
similar horror stories)
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> NY Times: August 31, 2000
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> Mexico Is Ordered to Pay a U.S. Company $16.7 Million
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> By ANTHONY DePALMA
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********> Several other North American business disputes have found their
*********way to the
********> Nafta arbitration process. In one, the Ethyl Corporation of
*********Richmond took
**********> action against the Canadian government because of a ban on the
**********importing
*********> of its gasoline additive. Canada was eventually forced to lift
********the ban.
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*******> Last year, the Methanex Corporation of Vancouver, British
*********Columbia, filed
********> a $970 million claim against the United States government
********because
********> California had banned imports of its own gasoline additive. That
********claim is
******> pending.
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