A Brief Analysis of the Treaty Practice of Promotion of National Treatment in the Investment Access Phrase and Its Influence

Th e party to a treaty are always given the power of controlling the access o f for eign investment according to traditional internati onal investment treaty,part y to a tr eaty is free to decide to permit foreign investment to enter into some investment field and the condition of these.Although foreign investors can be given national treatment in some investment treaties,the national treatment alw ays means the treatment of post-entry-phrase.Some treaties which appear in recent years advocate the notion of free access and ask for the pre-entry-ph rase national t reatment.This kind of treaty practi ce weaken the foreign inves tment jurisdiction of host countries seriously and is only on behalf of the int e rest to some developed investment exporting countries and should be paid atte ntion to developing countrie s.