| 1. | Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) | | | A proposed multilateral international agreement that is currently under negotiation at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. If it is passed, the MAI will have a profound impact on the way that governments treat foreign investment in all of the twenty nine developed countries members of the OECD.
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| 2. | Consequences to States in U.S. of MAI if adopted | | | Multilateral Agreement on Investment will have profound effects on states in U.S. of A, removing, for example, remedies to problems at the state level and reducing state's rights in social, economic, moral and self protection.
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