by rw | Nov 14, 2012 | Articles, Interviews
Francisco de Rosenzweig is the Undersecretary for Foreign Trade at Mexico’s Ministry of the Economy (Secretaría de Economía) and is responsible for the overall coordination of Mexico’s negotiating team to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). We invited...
by rw | Nov 14, 2012 | Articles, Political Risk Insurance, PRI Products and Coverages, Trade Disruption Insurance
In the past, “supply chain” insurance solutions tended to focus on Acts of God relating to the physical loss of tangible assets and the associated consequential loss of income. This timeworn approach overlooks the rise of intangible risks, or “Acts of Man,” and the...
by rw | Nov 14, 2012 | Articles, Bilateral Investment Treaties
In April of this year the US State Department released a new version of its model bilateral investment treaty (BIT). This text, like the various models the US has used over roughly the past 3 decades, represents the US’s basic policy position when it starts...
