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Indonesia: The End of Bilateral Investment Treaties?

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Foreign investors into Indonesia have taken note of the following brief paragraphs posted on the website of the Embassy of the Netherlands (see http://indonesia.nlembassy.org/news/2014/03/bilateral-investment-treaty%5B2%5D.html with our additional underline, below): “Indonesia has informed the Netherlands that it has decided to terminate the Bilateral Investment Treaty (official title: Agreement between the Government of the Republic Indonesia and the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands on Promotion and Protection of Investment) per July 1, 2015. From that…

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In Brazil

Brazil signs new bilateral investment treaties with Mozambique and Angola: new approach to BITs or “toothless lions”?

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On 30 March 2015, Brazil and Mozambique entered into a treaty, which they call the Agreement for Cooperation and Investment Facilitation. On 1 April, Brazil and Angola entered into an agreement of the same nature. Bilateral investment treaties or “BITs” are agreements between two countries for the reciprocal promotion and protection of investment by nationals of one signatory into the other. That is also the case with the Brazil-Mozambique and the Brazil-Angola BITs (the “new…

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In Chile

The Pacific Alliance and foreign investment

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Important companies headquartered in Peru are nowadays investing in countries of the Pacific Alliance. This is the case of Alicorp and the Gloria Group in Colombia; Brescia Group in Chile; Belcorp in Colombia, Mexico and Chile, as well as Ajegroup in Mexico and Colombia. Likewise, several Chilean, Colombian and Mexican companies are investing in other member countries. Hence Peru, Chile, Colombia and Mexico not only currently receive foreign investment, but also export investment towards other…

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