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If the “Interregional Association Agreement” between MERCOSUR and the EU should be concluded with all of its proposed rules, which ultimately gives way to the market as the only criteria, then the threat of the bipolarity of regulation and deregulation will become reality: The deregulation of the national market by the regulation of international trade regimes. In this way, in the context of the interweaving of international treaties between MER- COSUR and the European Union, a completely deregulated market would have again prepared the ideal ground for cross-border profit maximization and the commercialization of all thinkable spheres, by putting trade on a legal basis through the double or triple safeguard of international treaties. The free play of the market will solve it all, as if the sum of market-induced egoisms would in fact lead to an increased welfare for society as a whole. Christian Russau, January 2004
Table of Contents Chapter 1: The European Union (EU) and the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) 1.1 Negotiations of the “Interregional Association Agreement”between the EU and MERCOSUR ........... 10 1.2 Trade - Development? ........................................................................................................................... 13 1.3 Trade – Development – Human Rights? ............................................................................................... 21 Chapter 2: Foreign direct investment as the object of international trade regime 2.1 Foreign direct investment: An opportunity for development and human rights? ............................... 32 2.2 International Agreements and Treaties on Investment ........................................................................ 41 2.3 The World Trade Organization WTO ..................................................................................................... 43 2.3.1 WTO rules ....................................................................................................................................... 44 2.3.2 The TRIMs agreement .................................................................................................................... 46 2.3.3 The GATS agreement ...................................................................................................................... 47 2.3.4 The Relationships of “Trade and Investment” ............................................................................... 50 2.4 Investment “protection” in international treaties ................................................................................ 52 Chapter 3: European foreign investment in Latin America and MERCOSUR: An opportunity for development and human rights? 3.1 European foreign investment in Latin America and geo-strategical trade competition ..................... 58 3.2 European foreign investment in MERCOSUR ........................................................................................ 69 Chapter 4: The free trade agreement between EU and MERCOSUR: The case of Brazil 4. 1 The free trade agreement between EU and MERCOSUR: Interests of companies, lobby groups and governments – The case of Brazil ............................................................................................................... 82 4.2 The example of Brazil: Foreign direct investment without BITs and FTAs ............................................. 98 4.3 Brazil, foreign direct investment in GATS-2000 and the demands of the European Commission ...... 104
Page 2 and 3: Christian Russau Enforcement of int
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68 to the U.S. trade power by rapid
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120 c) The still pending Doha “De
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130 um den Markt der wiederentdeckt
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