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Investment protection chapters contained in Free Trade Agreements signed by Mexicoinclude the following:• Chapter XI of NAFTA; 26• Chapter XVII of the Free Trade Agreement between the United Mexican States andthe Republic of Colombia and the Republic of Venezuela (TLC G3); 27• Chapter XIII of the Free Trade Agreement between the United Mexican States and theRepublic of Costa Rica; 28• Chapter XV of the Free Trade Agreement between the United Mexican States andthe Republic of Bolivia; 29• Chapter XVI of the Free Trade Agreement between the Government of the UnitedMexican States and the Government of the Republic of Nicaragua; 30• Chapter IX of the Free Trade Agreement between the Republic of Chile and theUnited Mexican States; 31• As part of decision 2/2000 of the EU-Mexico Joint Council of the Free Trade Agreementbetween the United Mexican States and the European Union; 32• Chapter XVII of the Free Trade Agreement between the United Mexican States andGuatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras (Northern Triangle-CA3); 33• Chapter III of the Free Trade Agreement between the United Mexican States and Iceland,Norway, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland; 34• Chapter XIII of the Free Trade Agreement between the United Mexican States andUruguay; 35• Chapter VII of the Agreement to Strengthen the Economic Association between theUnited Mexican States and Japan. 36Although these investment protection chapters cannot be equated with the BITs, dueto the legal context in which they have been executed, when compared it can be seenthat both their content and particularly their purpose are very similar, since they confervirtually the same protection rights, differing only in superficial aspects.37Foreign Investment Regulation__________26Idem, December 20, 1993.27Idem, January 9, 1995.28Idem, January 10, 1995.29Idem, January 11, 1995.30Idem, July 1, 1998.31Idem, July 8, 1999.32Idem, June 26, 2000.33Idem, March 14, 2001.34Idem, June 29, 2001.35Idem, July 14, 2004.36Idem, March 31, 2005.