Identifying core elements

This chapter examines provisions of APEC IIAs in some detail and illustrates the approaches taken by APEC economies in formulating legal text. It also demonstrates the interrelationship between scope and definitional issues and substantive provisions. Scope issues are addressed first, and then substantive provisions are divided into three types: liberalizing, protecting and promoting provisions. Where a provision can, for example, liberalize and protect foreign investment, it has been categorized according to its dominant trait with discussion of its broader effect usually being included there, though sometimes also warranting a separate discussion under a different section.

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development