Step-by-step explanation:
Foreign Investment: Laws and Policies Regulating Foreign
Investment in 10 Countries (28-FEB-08, GAO-08-320).
Foreign acquisitions of U.S. companies can pose a significant
challenge for the U.S. government because of the need to balance
the benefits of foreign investment with national security
concerns. The Exon-Florio amendment to the Defense Production Act
authorizes the President to suspend or prohibit foreign
acquisitions of U.S. companies that may harm national security.
To better understand how other countries deal with similar
challenges, GAO was asked to identify how other countries address
the issues that Exon-Florio is intended to address. Specifically,
this report describes selected countries' (1) laws and policies
enacted to regulate foreign investment to protect their national
security interests and (2) implementation of those laws and
policies. This report updates a 1996 GAO report that describes
how four major foreign investors in the United States--France,
Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom--monitored foreign
investment in their own countries to protect national security
interests. It also examines foreign investment in six additional
countries: Canada, China, India, the Netherlands, Russia, and the
United Arab Emirates (UAE). GAO reviewed selected laws and
regulations and interviewed foreign government officials and
others concerning their implementation and any planned changes to
their foreign investment laws, regulations, and policies. Indexing Terms
REPORTNUM: GAO-08-320
ACCNO: A81176
TITLE: Foreign Investment: Laws and Policies Regulating Foreign
Investment in 10 Countries
DATE: 02/28/2008
SUBJECT: Federal law
Foreign governments
Foreign investments in US
Foreign policies
Foreign trade agreements
Foreign trade policies
Homeland security
International relations
International trade
International trade regulation
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