No dia 27/10/2015 tivemos o evento “Brazilian bilateral investment treaties: more than a new investment treaty model?”. Nosso convidado foi o prof. Nicolás M. Perrone, da Universidad Externado de Colombia. Também esteve presente como debatedor e problematizador Fabríco S. Panzini, especialista da Unidade de Negociações Internacionais e Secretário Executivo do Fórum das Empresas Transnacionais da Confederação Nacional da Indústria.

“Brazil has finally become a player in the international investment regime, but it represents a peculiar case in foreign investment relations. In the 1990s, Brazil resisted ratifying the 14 signed bilateral investment treaties (BITs) because of concerns about national sovereignty. This ultimately proved not to be an obstacle in becoming the main FDI recipient in Latin America and the fifth largest in the world. Two decades later, Brazil has begun signing BITs again, but this time things are different. Brazil has signed – and is negotiating – treaties with countries that either have already received Brazilian investment or are potential destinations for it. These treaties have attracted the attention of practitioners and academics due to the inclusion of cooperation-facilitating mechanisms and the omission of the fair and equitable standard of treatment and of investor-state arbitration. This is a dramatic change with respect to current negotiations, including the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, and poses the question of the extent to which the Brazilian BITs are not a new treaty model, but rather part of an alternative FDI policy. This talk will explore this issue looking at the political economy and institutional setting of these new treaties”.

Infelizmente, não há gravação disponível para este evento.