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An international investment agreement (IIA) is a type of treaty between countries that addresses issues relevant to cross-border investments, usually for the purpose of protection, promotion and liberalization of such investments.
The agreement would establish the principle of "national treatment" (in which government must treat foreign companies as favorably as domestic companies) as the norm for international investment. Indeed, in some cases, foreign corporations might have stronger protections than domestic investors.
A bilateral investment treaty (BIT) is an agreement establishing the terms and conditions for private investment by nationals and companies of one state in another state. This type of investment is called foreign direct investment (FDI). BITs are established through trade pacts. A nineteenth-century forerunner of the BIT is the "friendship ...
Experts expect that the new agreements in the service and investment sector will increase the trade turnover of the CIS countries by 1.1% in the short term – about 81.3 billion rubles, and mutual trade in services of the parties to the agreement – by 8% or 78.8 billion rubles. [4]
International investment policy must be addressed at three levels. Strategic – this involves managing the interaction between IIAs and national policies, and those between IIAs and other international agreements e.g. human rights obligations. The overall objective is to ensure coherence between IIAs and sustainable development goals.
Investors are granted this right through international investment agreements between the investor's home state and the host state. Such agreements can be found in bilateral investment treaties (BITs), international trade treaties such as the 2019 United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement, or other treaties like the 1991 Energy Charter Treaty.
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The ICSID Review—Foreign Investment Law Journal is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering foreign investment law and international investment dispute settlement. Until 2011 it was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), an independent ...