TO THE DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION AND SKILLS: COSTS AND BENEFITS OF AN EU-USA,INVESTMENT PROTECTION TREATY

This report assesses the likely costs and benefits for the United
Kingdom (UK) of an
investment protection chapter in a proposed free trade agreement between
the European
Union (EU) and the United States (US). Our assessment throughout is
based on the approach
articulated in our Analytical Framework report, which provides the basic
structure for this
report as well as identifying more specific questions that inform our
analysis. We assume that
readers will have read the Analytical Framework report before turning to
this document. We
follow the same organizational scheme as in our EU-China report, and
where appropriate we
refer in this report to discussions or points in the EU-China report.
Unless the context
indicates otherwise we also refer to investment chapters in a larger
free trade agreement, when
we use the terms "investment treaties" or "BITs".

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