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
