Standards of National Treatment in International Investment

According to modern law of nations, Nationalsame treatment of the foreign investors.
Treatment is the fundamental system aboutMeanwhile, the effects and influences of the
foreigners' civil status, whose original idea is thatinternational laws are taken into serious
foreign investors can enjoy the same treatmentconsideration: taking care of the developed
as the internal ones. With the development ofcountries' abuse of the rights in explaining the
international investment and related laws, Nationaltreaties and using the exceptions of treaties
Treatment is applied to international tradeswiftly to protect their countries' economic
gradually. Practically, applying National Treatmentauthority.
into international trade is that the host investingBased on the current foreign Investment laws in
country must provide those who have madeChina, the situation of the treatment of the
international investment and have its ownforeign investment is "encourage and restrict",
countries' identities with National Treatment.which manifests in the following: seldom promise
In the international investment regulations, therethe citizen the right in the protective agreements
are two different statements about the Nationalof the bilateral investment, or restrict the citizen
Treatment: "no less" and "equal". Though thein the treaties; raise some favorable measures
treaties of international investment have differentfor the foreign investors while restrict them, such
statements about the National Treatment, theseas the tax favorable measure. In order to make
two definitions are unanimous in law and have nogood use of the foreign investment, what we
essential difference in practice. To understand theneed to do now is to revise and improve our
National-Treatment correctly, we must start fromregulations related to investment treatment.
its relevance, which is also proved in theThe revise of the foreign investment law needs
international investment. According to thereformations in the following five aspects: unit the
comparative analysis of the internationalstandards of the whole country, use the
investment regulations, National Treatment isfavorable measures under the WTO regulations,
adopted by a large number of bilateral andand gradually cancel the no coincident favorable
multilateral treaties, which becomes a trend of themeasures between the current law and the
international investment regulations. Developingcitizen's treatment and so on. At last the
countries should base on the need of opening-upNational-Treatment regulations are set up based
and their countries' economic power, and gain theon the foreign investment laws.