The ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement, or simply known as ACIA, aims to create a free and an open investment environment through the consolidation and expansion of existing agreements between the ASEAN member countries (ACIA Business Guide, 2013). This was reflected in the signing in 1987 of the ASEAN Agreement for the Promotion and Protection of Investments (AAPPI or IGA) that desires to create a favorable conditions for investments, and in 1998 of the Framework Agreement on the ASEAN Investment Area (AIA) envisions a region with a free flow of investment, which established basic princ...

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The purposes of MERCOSUR include: Free transit of production goods, services and factors between the member states with inter alia, the elimination of customs rights and lifting of nontariff restrictions on the transit of goods or any other measures with similar effects; Fixing of a common external tariff (TEC) and adoption of a common trade policy with regard to nonmember states or groups of states, and the coordination of positions in regional and international commercial and economic meetings; Coordination of macroeconomic and sectorial policies of member states relating to forei...

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As security interests evolved and the Cold War collapse brought on global instability, in 1991 in the Maastricht Treaty, European nations agreed to design the European Union, composed of three organizations: the European Community (economics and monetary), the organization formerly known as the European Political Cooperation (foreign and security co-operation) and the European Parliament and court of Justice. ... It also gives loans and financial investment through the European Development Fund in these nations, thus stimulating the economies and attempting to instill some amount of political...

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