摘要
Ⅰ.IntroductionTrade-related investment measures(TRIMs)have become a subject of con-siderable contention in North-South economic relations.The central concernof the debate has been the impact of national foreign-direct-investment regula-tions on international trade flows.This paper tempts to analyze some of the TRIMs in the context of the Ge-neral Agreement on Tariffs and Trade(GATT),their negative effects as