Elle serait encore aggravée s'il venait s'ajouter l'inclusion, dans le mandat de négociation, de la question des investissements parmi les compétences de l'OMC, qui risquerait de ressusciter l'Accord Multilatéral sur l'Investissement (AMI), de sinistre mémoire.
Matters would be made worse still if the negotiating mandate included investment among the WTO's competencies, as this would risk the revival of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), of infamous memory.