Study Of The Legal Treatment Of International Investment Liberalization

FDI is an engine and a kind of catalyst for host countries to promote economic development and speed up the process of globalization. How to attract more FDI with higher quality, to prevent investment transfer effectively, to upgrade the contribution degree of FDI to locationally economic development, to guard against its following up negative effect and to realize beneficial maximum and cost minimum from FDI to local economic development are key issues currently confronted with by us, the important one of which is to appropriately handle the legal treatment of FDI.To solve the problem of FDI treatment, it first needs to face historic trend of international i(?)estment liberalization development. To begin with, this thesis def(?) s circumscription of FDI, and analyses its current situation and characteristics, investigates historic background, characteristics and substance of international investment liberalization, discusses the relation between TRIMs agreement and investment liberalization, and further analyzes the matter of state sovereignty under the circumstances of international investment liberalization from the aspect of international law, and finally suggests that developing countries need to persist in and protect national economic sovereignty based on foreign investment jurisdiction as main course.The standard of international investment treatment can generally be classified as standard of fair and just treatment, standard of national and MFN treatment. This thesis respectively discusses the development of absolute and relative treatment standards and their mutual relation. The standards of trade and investment that interact and merge each other have similarity and specific differences, which are expounded and compared in this paper. It can be anticipated that investment liberalization in service industry is one of the trend of international investment liberalization development and the treatment in this area will stand on a very important position. This paper discusses the core rules and the concrete commitment of national treatment.The principal matter of international investment liberalization is admission liberalization that is differently dealt with by developed countries and developing ones This paper analyses unilateral, bilateral and multilateral legislative standard or trend...