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  • 8 - Plurilateral Negotiations in the WTO on Services Domestic Regulation and Investment Facilitation for Development

  • from Part II - Political Economy Perspectives of Investment Facilitation Rule-Making
  • Edited by Axel Berger, German Institute of Development and Sustainability, Manjiao Chi, University of International Business and Economics
  • Book:
    The Making of an International Investment Facilitation Framework
    Published online:
    13 March 2025
    Print publication:
    20 March 2025, pp 210-238
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    The plurilateral negotiations in the WTO on services domestic regulation and investment facilitation for development, commonly referred to as joint statement initiatives, were running in parallel until the end of 2021. Both negotiations seek to devise or have come up with disciplines that would apply good regulatory principles to WTO members’ regulatory procedures and requirements affecting services trade and cross-border investment. These disciplines pursue the objective of creating a more transparent and predictable regulatory environment that would facilitate the uptake of economic activities by (foreign) services/service suppliers and investors. This chapter examines the approach taken by the two initiatives to regulatory disciplines. It shows that their approach to regulatory disciplines is largely similar, but their stance on special and differential treatment sets them apart.