2014 Reports

Germany, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and investment-dispute settlement: Observations on a paradox

Lorz, Ralph Alexander

The use of subsidies to attract investment costs government billions of dollars annually, making regulation urgent. While comprehensive limitations such as the EU’s are not likely soon, we should improve transparency, have major stakeholders promote incentive rules within preferential trade areas, strengthen WTO notifications, and ban relocation subsidies where possible