College of Law, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, No 1, Sector 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
Tob Control. 2010 Aug;19(4):306-10. doi: 10.1136/tc.2009.033613. Epub 2010 May 14.
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) contains no provisions covering tobacco industry investments. This creates the potential for tobacco companies to benefit from investment liberalisation by using foreign investments to avoid tobacco tariffs, increase tobacco consumption and otherwise impair the implementation of FCTC-style measures. Reducing and ultimately eliminating foreign investment activities by tobacco companies can be justified on health grounds, even though it runs counter to current investment liberalisation trends. Through the FCTC process, non-binding guidelines can be elaborated to assist parties in recognising and responding to foreign investment strategies of tobacco companies, to support efforts to exclude the tobacco sector from investment liberalisation and otherwise would improve all countries' awareness of the threat from foreign investment strategies of tobacco companies and provide them with approaches to handle the problems.
《烟草控制框架公约》（FCTC）中没有涵盖烟草业投资的条款。这为烟草公司提供了通过利用外国投资来规避烟草关税、增加烟草消费以及以其他方式损害 FCTC 式措施实施的可能性。即使与当前投资自由化趋势背道而驰，从健康角度来看，减少并最终消除烟草公司的外国投资活动是合理的。通过 FCTC 进程，可以制定非约束性准则，以协助缔约方识别和应对烟草公司的外国投资策略，支持将烟草部门排除在投资自由化之外的努力，并提高所有国家对烟草公司外国投资策略威胁的认识，为它们提供处理这些问题的方法。
