Bucheli, Marcelo (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Abstract
During the 1920s and 1930s, most Latin American countries drafted nationalist legislations for the oil sector seeking to control the power of foreign multinational corporations. While most initiatives sought to limit the foreign companies' control on oil production, countries which were not self-sufficient in crude but with an economy that required large amounts of oil products developed nationalist policies around refining and marketing activities. This paper studies the case of Argentina (oil producer but not self-sufficient) and Chile (non-oil producer) and their nationalist policies around oil products marketing in the period 1922-1955. I show that these countries attempts to control their internal oil products market was constrained by their dependence on crude oil made by the foreign corporations and by the way Standard Oil (New Jersey) and Royal Dutch-Shell protected each other. These two elements eventually forced both Chile and Argentina to organize local cartels between the state-owned companies and the foreign corporations.
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Paper provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Business in its series Working Papers with number
07-0109.