2005年美國的海外投資典型性分析(PDF 12頁)

EXECUTIVESUMMARY
Despite the setbacks encountered in the negotiation of multilateral foreign investment rules at the World
Trade Organization and Free Trade Area of the Americas talks, there is still a framework of rules governing
investment emerging in the Americas. Although incomplete and embryonic, the emerging foreign
investment regime is defined by the existing multi-layered patchwork of primarily bilateral investment
agreements and investment chapters of free trade agreements. But, the shift from negotiating
investment rules in a regional or multilateral forum to a predominantly bilateral one is likely to have
consequences for the character of that investment regime. This paper examines the nature of this
emerging foreign investment regime in the Americas. It begins by discussing the state of the global and
hemispheric negotiations on investment rules, and the position of two of the hemisphere's most
important players, the United States and Brazil, on this issue. The nature of the investment regime desired
by both players is then examined throughananalysis of the bilateral investment agreements concluded by
both with their Latin American partners.
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