• parmeshwar kumar mahto

Many jurists and philosophers think that the alien should get equal treatment under the law because that alien submits to local conditions with benefits and burdens and to treat that alien unequally and to do any discrimination just because that person is a national of any other country would be against the principle of equality. National Treatment clause ensures that the foreign investors get the equally favourable conditions which the host nation gives to its domestic investors. Its motive is to encourage international investment. Under GATT the provision ie Article III which deals with the National Treatment clause prescribes the conditions which the contracting parties have to abide by incase they have agreed or they have have put national treatment clause in their trade agreement. GATT has various provisions and it treats internal measures very differently from border measures.

GATT,customs duty,WTO ,National Treatment

"ROLE OF NATIONAL TREATMENT CLAUSE IN PROTECTION OF FOREIGN INVESTORS; A CRITICAL STUDY WITH RESPECT TO BILATERAL INVESTMENT TREATIES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.483-499, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906361.pdf

"ROLE OF NATIONAL TREATMENT CLAUSE IN PROTECTION OF FOREIGN INVESTORS; A CRITICAL STUDY WITH RESPECT TO BILATERAL INVESTMENT TREATIES", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp483-499, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906361.pdf