Disputes Involving US Private Direct Foreign Investment: March 1, 1980-September 30, 1982

摘要

This survey covers 116 foreign investment disputes involving US citizens or companies for the period March 1, 1980, through September 30, 1982. These disputes involve nationalization, expropriation (including host government actions that have an expropriatory effect), forced sale of assets, and forced contract/concession renegotiation. The number of new disputes declined markedly. Only one new dispute involved formal nationalization or expropriation. Latin America again experienced the greatest number of new disputes. There were no new disputes involving petroleum or other resource extraction industries. Fifteen of the 116 disputes were settled leaving 101 unsettled at the end of September 1982.