Preferential trade agreements increasingly feature non-trade provisions whose impact on foreign direct investment is yet to be explored. This column exploits a structural gravity setting to study how preferential trade agreement provisions related to civil and political rights, economic and social rights, and environmental protection may affect the flow of bilateral greenfield foreign direct investment. It finds that all three types of non-trade related provisions affect FDI negatively. The largest effects are estimated for FDI directed ‘South’ (to middle- and low-income countries), and between ‘South-South’ countries in particular.