<P> On the other hand, a number of Latin American countries located in the Pacific such as Chile, Mexico and Peru have signed the Trans - Pacific Partnership with Australia, Brunei, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and Vietnam . The agreement, originally signed on 4 February 2016, is being renegotiated after the United States withdrew . The eleven remaining members reached a partial agreement on 11 November 2017 . </P> <P> Apart from binational free - trade agreements, the US has also signed a number of bilateral investment treaties (BIT) with Latin American countries, establishing the conditions of foreign direct investment . These treaties include "fair and equitable treatment", protection from expropriation, free transfer of means and full protection and security . Critics point out that US negotiators can control the pace, content and direction of bilateral negotiations with individual countries more easily than they can with larger negotiating frameworks . </P> <P> In case of a disagreement between a multinational firm and a state over some kind of investment made in a Latin American country, the firm may depose a lawsuit before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (International Center for the Resolution of Investment Disputes), which is an international court depending on the World Bank . Such a lawsuit was deposed by the US - based multinational firm Bechtel following its expulsion from Bolivia during the Cochabamba protests of 2000 . Local population had demonstrated against the privatization of the water company, requested by the World Bank, after poor management of the water by Bechtel . Thereafter, Bechtel requested $50 millions from the Bolivian state in reparation . However, the firm finally decided to drop the case in 2006 after an international protest campaign . </P> <P> Such BIT were passed between the US and numerous countries (the given date is not of signature but of entrance in force of the treaty): Argentina (1994), Bolivia (2001), Ecuador (1997), Grenada (1989), Honduras (2001), Jamaica (1997), Panama (1991, amended in 2001), Trinidad and Tobago (1996). Others where signed but not ratified: El Salvador (1999), Haiti (1983--one of the earliest, preceded by Panama), Nicaragua (1995). </P>

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