MAI Multilateral Agreement on Investment
plan of the economic globalization elite failed in 1998 for dismantling barriers to investment all over the world in the quest for a progressively more open global economy. All of the regional and global economic liberalization pacts born in the past decade — the WTO, NAFTA, the European Union, Mercosur and so forth — would pale in the face of the mighty MAI

read:
Maigalomania
official mai text (pdf)

Maquiladora see Sweatshop

MFN most favoured nation

MEAs Multilateral Environment Agreements
that have trade components - like the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes - could potentially be challenged under the WTO.

Mercosur
The Southern Cone Common Market, a South American trading bloc, comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela and associate members Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

Mercosur Summits: 2007 Río de Janeiro • 2006 Córdoba • 2005 Montevideo

Millennium Round

read: The proposed 'Millennium Round'

MFTZ Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Zone
European Union and 12 Southern Mediterranean partner countries are currently in the process of setting up the MFTZ, with a target date for completion of the year 2010