China and the World Trading System: Entering the New Millennium

Cambridge University Press, 3/6/2003
EAN 9780521818216, ISBN10: 0521818214

Hardcover, 468 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm
Language: English

China, the world's sixth largest economy, has recently joined the rules-based international trading system. What are the implications of this accession? Leading scholars and practitioners from the US, Europe, China, Australia and Japan argue that China's membership will affect the WTO's decision-making, dispute resolution and rule-based structures. It will also spur legal and economic reform, have far-reaching social, political and distributional consequences in China, facilitate a new role for China in international geo-political affairs, and alter the shape, structure and content of the international trading system as a whole. Of interest to scholars of China, as well as trade lawyers and economists.

Introduction
entering the new millennium Deborah Z. Cass, Brett Gerard Williams and George Barker
Part I. The World Trading System
1. The impact of China's accession on the WTO John H. Jackson
2. WTO membership for China
to be and not to be
is that the answer? Sylvia Ostry
3. China and the constitutionalization of international trade law Deborah Z. Cass
Part II. The Accession
4. China's WTO accession
the final countdown Jeffrey L. Gertler
5. China's accession
improving market access and Australia's role and interests Graeme Thomson
Part III. China
The Domestic Sphere
6. The state of the Chinese economy
structural changes, impacts and implications Ligang Song
7. Trade policy reform and China's WTO accession Elena Ianchovichina and Will Martin
8. China's WTO entry in labor surplus and Marxist terms Raj Bhala
9. Enforcement of WTO agreements
illusion or reality? Qingjian Kong
10. China
trade, law and human rights Alice Tay
Part IV. Trade in Goods
11. China's interest in the WTO's deregulation of international textiles trade Ian Dickson
12. China and the agreement on technical barriers to trade Ichiro Araki
Part V. Trade in Services and Competition Policy
13. WTO membership and professional services regulation in China Christopher Arup
14. The impact of accession on regulation of distribution and logistics industries in China Dene Yeaman
15. Regulating the new economy
implications for telecommunications and e-commerce in China Ian Macintosh
16. Segregation and convergence
the Chinese dilemma for financial services Richard Wu
17. Adopting a competition law in China Mark Williams
Part VI. Intellectual Property
18. Chinese trademark law and the TRIPs agreement Angela Gregory
19. TRIPs goes East
China's interests and international trade in intellectual property Antony Taubman
20. The impact of WTO membership on review of the TRIPS agreement Daniel Stewart and Brett Gerard Williams
Part VII. Dispute Settlement
21. Interpreting China's accession protocol
a case study in anti-dumping Michael Lennard
22. Dispute settlement and sub-national entities Ravi P. Kewalram.