The multilateral approach Sample Clauses

The multilateral approach. In the post war era, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment (1948) considered the need to set up an “international trade organisation” (ITO), the aims of which would include drawing up an agreement on investments to promote and protect the capital flows available for productive investment1. The conference was however dominated by trade concerns, and approval was only secured for the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT), geared exclusively to trade matters2. Given the inability to reach a multilateral consensus on the type of protection to be granted to multinational companies, developed countries began deploying bilateral strategies to protect foreign direct investment (FDI). The first bilateral treaty was signed between Germany and Pakistan in 1959. This process was set against a background of vast global foreign capital flows, within the framework of import-replacing industrialisation in the larger Latin American economies and decolonisation in other regions. It was not until the Uruguay Round (1986), amid a climate more favourable to the liberalisation of capital flows in response to the Latin American foreign debt crisis, that a more liberal debate was initiated about how to move forward with the process of strengthening foreign investment. The outcome was the adoption, in 1994, of a series of partial multilateral agreements on trade related investments (TRIM), trade in services (GATS), and trade related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS). During the nineties, against the background of the Washington Consensus and the founding of the WTO, another two attempts were made at adopting a global multilateral agreement on investment: the first was promoted by a group of developed countries, members of G-7, which 1 See Xxxxxxx X, “Acuerdos Bilaterales de Inversión y Denuncia ante Tribunales Internacionales, CEPAL, 2004, and Xxxxxxx and Xxxxxxxxx, “Obsolescencia de la Protección a los Inversores Extranjeros después de la Crisis Argentina”, CEPAL, 2006. 2 See Xxxxxx Xxxxx: Trade and Investment Rules: Latin American Perspectives. CEPAL, 2006. tried to seal the approval of a Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The idea was to adopt the MAI within the context of the OECD, with a view to initiating a process of replacing existing bilateral agreements, and using it as a benchmark in future WTO negotiations. From this perspective, the MAI was to consti...
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