BITS in Argentina: instruments to legalize subordinating the country to the interests of corporate groups
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FOCO | 9 September 2004
Freely translated by Anoosha Boralessa (Aug 2015); not revised by bilaterals.org or any other organization or person.
BITS in Argentina: instruments to legalize subordinating the country to the interests of corporate groups
Index
Introduction
Part I: Bilateral Investment Treaties in Argentina
Foreign Investment in the Nineties
Investment Promotion and Argentina’s Bilateral and Multilateral Activism
Bilateral Investment Treaties, Corporate Strategies and Economic Policy
The Main Features of Bilateral Investment Treaties signed by Argentina
Part II: ICSID Cases against Argentina
Concluded Claims
Pending Claims
Analysis of Two Case Studies on Investment Protected by International Treaties
Conclusions
Bibliography
Sources
Annex 1: List of Bilateral Investment Treaties signed by the Executive and ratified by the National Congress
Annex 2: ICSID: A List of Contracting States and Signatories to the Convention
Annex 3: List of ICSID rulings against Argentina
Annex 4: Information on companies that filed ICSID proceedings against Argentina
Annex 5: Fines that the Gas Regulatory Authority (Ente Regulador del Gas or ENARGAS) applied between January 1998 and June 2003 to gas producing companies controlled by Camuzzi International
Annex 6: Letter from US Chamber of Commerce
