Rationale and Goals of Trade and Investment Policies
•Government policies are designed to regulate, stimulate, direct, and protect national activities. The exercise of these policies is the result of national sovereignty, which provides a government with the right and burden to shape the environment of the country and its citizens.
•National Sovereignty is a legal expression of the right to self-government by a state or nation. It entails the declaration by a political system to operate independently of foreign rule or control.