The comments of the ILO’s Supervisory bodies: Usefulness in the context of the sanction-based dimension of labour provisions in US free trade agreements
This paper looks at recent complaints under the labour chapters of three US trade agreements – the CAFTA-DR, the US-Bahrain and the US-Peru FTAs – and undertakes a preliminary analysis of the use of the comments of the ILO’s supervisory bodies in the regulation mechanisms of labour provisions contained in those trade agreements