National treatment is a principle in international law.[1] Utilized in many treaty regimes involving trade and intellectual property,[2][3] it requires equal treatment of foreigners and locals. Under national treatment, a state that grants particular rights, benefits or privileges to its own citizens must also grant those advantages to the citizens of other states while they are in that country. In the context of international agreements, a state must provide equal treatment to citizens of the other states participating in the agreement. Imported and locally produced goods should be treated equally — at least after the foreign goods have entered the market.[2]
While this is generally viewed as a desirable principle, in custom it conversely means that a state can deprive foreigners of anything of which it deprives its own citizens. An opposing principle calls for an international minimum standard of justice (a sort of basic due process) that would provide a base floor for the protection of rights and of access to judicial process. The conflict between national treatment and minimum standards has mainly played out between industrialized and developing nations, in the context of expropriations. Many developing nations, having the power to take control over the property of their own citizens, wished to exercise it over the property of aliens as well.[citation needed]
Though support for national treatment was expressed in several controversial (and legally non-binding) United Nations General Assembly resolutions, the issue of expropriations is almost universally handled through treaties with other states and contracts with private entities, rather than through reliance upon international custom.
National treatment only applies once a product, service or item of intellectual property has entered the market. Therefore, charging customs duty on an import is not a violation of national treatment even if locally-produced products are not charged an equivalent tax.[2]
^"The national treatment standard". LawTeacher.com. 2013-11-01. Archived from the original on 2015-05-11. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
^ abc"Principles of the trading system". World Trade Organization. Archived from the original on 2000-08-17. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
^Loewenheim, Ulrich (2009-01-01). "The Principle of National Treatment in the International Conventions Protecting Intellectual Property". Patents and Technological Progress in a Globalized World. Vol. 6. pp. 593–599. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-88743-0_41. ISBN 978-3-540-88742-3.
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