Preferential investment liberalization under bilateral investment treaties: how to ensure compliance with WTO law?
Basedow, R.
(2015).
Preferential investment liberalization under bilateral investment treaties: how to ensure compliance with WTO law?
(Columbia FDI perspectives 162).
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment.
(2015).
Preferential investment liberalization under bilateral investment treaties: how to ensure compliance with WTO law?
(Columbia FDI perspectives 162).
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment.
Numerous modern bilateral investment treaties seek to liberalize bilateral investment flows on a preferential basis. This Perspective argues that such liberalization commitments are likely to be multilateralized under the General Agreement on Trade in Services. It discusses how policy-makers may avoid the multilateralization of such bilateral liberalization commitments.