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This article is focused on finding the mutual interests and reinforcing factors between the two most important economic blocks on an international level: The EUROPEAN UNION and MERCASUR.

The multilateral trade system established at the end of 1947 by the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has always pursued as its main objective the liberalisation of world trade through the international cooperation, a cooperation which has been encouraged and consolidated by the creation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). At present the WTO constitutes, without any doubt, the most important universal operational entity of economic order called globalisation.

This paper tries to analyse the facts that way affect the evolution of Direct Foreing Investments in Developing Countries. Differences in the Economic aspects between Latin America and South East Asian Countries are presented and several Econometric Models are analysed.
As a result of the above analysis, the anthor offers some political preasures to be applied in these countries.

Bilateral institutional relations between the EU and Latin America are increasing, while at the same time there has been a great development of multilateral negotiations with both areas as directly interested parties. The paper analyses the reasons for failure al Seattle of the Ministeral Conference of the WTO.

In the WTO, developing countries have been divided into two groups: developing countries per se (DC) and less-advanced developing countries (LADC). The paper studies the socio-economic characteristics of the LADC, as well as the reforms that they have introduced in recent years; the specific contribution of foreign trade to the development of these countries is further analysed.