August 31, 1989
TO: INTERNATIONAL FUNDS TASK FORCE NO. 11-89
RE: 1990 NATIONAL TREATMENT STUDY
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The U.S. Treasury is beginning to work on the 1990 National
Treatment Study. The purpose of the Study is to report to
Congress on (1) the foreign countries from which foreign
financial services institutions have entered into the business of
providing financial services in the U.S., (2) the kinds of
financial services which are being offered, (3) the extent to
which foreign countries deny national treatment to U.S. banking
organizations, and (4) the efforts undertaken by the U.S. to
eliminate such discrimination. The Study will focus on those
countries in which there are significant denials of national
treatment which impact U.S. financial firms.
The Treasury has asked for the assistance of the Institute
and its members in identifying those countries in which there
have been significant denials of national treatment in foreign
markets. Attached for reference is a copy of the "Summary and
Conclusions" of the 1986 National Treatment Study Update.
The 1990 National Treatment Study will be on the agenda for
the September 12 meeting of the task force.
Amy B. Rosenblum
Assistant General Counsel
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