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Substantive Right: National Treatment & Most-Favoured-Nation Principle

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Substantive Right: National Treatment & Most-Favoured-Nation Principle

National Treatment and Most-Favoured-Nation ("MFN") Principles are contingent standards. National Treatment and MFN are each concerned to ensure that treatment afforded to a foreign investor of another contracting state with the host state is not less favourable that that which are afforded to a national of the host state or that of a third state.

31 Jan 2019 Video

National Treatment and Most-Favoured-Nation ("MFN") Principles are contingent standards.  National Treatment and MFN are each concerned to ensure that treatment afforded to a foreign investor of another contracting state with the host state is not less favourable that that which are afforded to a national of the host state or that of a third state.

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