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Study On The Effect Of Regional Trade Agreements On The International Investment Law

Posted on:2005-04-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C XieFull Text:PDF
GTID:2156360125456680Subject:International Economic Law
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With the trend of globalization of economy, the international trade and international investment get closer connection than they were before. International Trade Law and International Investment Law, as the laws regulating the international economic activities, is interacting each other accordingly, on one side, they are promoting and directing each other, one the other side, varieties of in-coordination have caused certain negative effect on both fields.With the increasing of the proportion of the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the international business, people find that the effect on the investment caused by the Trade Barriers is existing at anytime, many trade measures will cause great effect on the volume, sectoral composition and geographical distribution of the foreign direct investment, it could even distort the flow of the FDI. Thereof all these will affect on the developing legislation of the multilateral investment. How to adjust and restrict this kind of IRTMs, especially the trade protectionism measures adopted by the advanced countries is becoming an important task, a task that will be required to solve by the current practices. This essay will make initial discussion on these questions under the current background.The article includes 3 parts, as follows:The preface explains the motion of writing, the meaning of the topic and the main logic of the article.Chapter l:"Effect on the International Investment Law caused by IRTMs". This chapter gave a brief introduction on the effect on the international investment law caused by the trade measures through analyzing the legal relationship between international trade and international investment; it also introduced several kinds of trade measures relating to the investment, which is under research currently. The following text will base on this.Chapter 2: "Effect on the investment law by the legal principle and the measures ofthe RTAs" (regional trade agreements). Giving NAFTA as a representative illustration, this chapter discussed about the effect on the investment law caused by the frame of this Agreement and the series of legal principle and measures it adopted, thereby extended this opinion and believed that the current prosperous RTAs would caused great effect on the later multilateral investment law, which should be used for reference by the investment law.Chapter 3: "Efforts of establishing multilateral investment rules in the trade law system". As the extension of the Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, this Chapter discussed that with the cross effect of the regional trade law and multilateral trade law, the impact on the legislation of investment on the international level. It also prospect the development trend of the united international investment convention.
Keywords/Search Tags:Investment-related trade measures (IRTMs), Regional trade agreements (RTA), Multilateral Investment Rules
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