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

source: FOCO