United States requests consultations regarding Peru's environmental obligations under bilateral trade agreement

• Autores: Jean Galbraith
• Localización: American Journal of International Law, ISSN 0002-9300, Vol. 113, Nº 2, 2019, págs. 400-404
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On January 4, 2019, the United States requested consultations with Peru with respect to its forest governance obligations under the 2007 United States – Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA). The PTPA has an environmental chapter with robust terms that were included largely at the insistence of members of Congress, reflecting concerns that a free trade agreement with Peru could increase the country's export of illegally logged wood to the United States. The request for consultations focused on Peru's decision to relocate its Agency for the Supervision of Forest Resources and Wildlife (OSINFOR) to within Peru's Ministry of Environment—a change that, in the view of the United States, “appears to conflict” with a PTPA obligation that “‘OSINFOR shall be an independent and separate agency.