Cooperation and Facilitation Investment Agreements

2018 In Review, Argentina, Belt Road Initiative, BIT, Bolivia, Brazil, Cooperation and Facilitation Investment Agreements, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Franchising Contracts, ICSID Arbitration, Latin America, Mexico, Model BIT, NAFTA, Public Procurement, São Paulo, South America, Uruguay, USMCA

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        [Source:Google] In this post the Kluwer Arbitration Blog’s Latin American editorial team (Associate Editor Gloria Alvarez and Assistant Editors Daniela Páez  and Enrique Jaramillo) joins us in an adventure to reflect on the Blog’s 2018 coverage of arbitration developments in the region. First, it is worth recapping the environment and circumstances…

Brazil, Cooperation and Facilitation Investment Agreements, Investment, Investment agreements, Investment protection

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Brazil has been notoriously reluctant to enter into treaties with other States that provide for the protection of investors and investments, viewing them as detrimental to the host State and its national investors. Brazil has no bilateral investment treaties in force, a limited number of its own treaties, named Cooperation and Facilitation Investment Agreements (CFIAs),…