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ECON 0602: Lecture 5

Topics
China and the WTO
WTO and its rules
China’s entry to the WTO
Trade frictions

China’s Foreign Trade:
Special Issues

China’s FTA: CEPA
Sino-US trade imbalance
China’s exchange rate
Export and employment
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What is WTO?

China and the WTO: Questions/issues

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT,
1947-1994)

What is WTO?

1947, Geneva, 23 (including China), now 148+
Most Favored Nation Principle (MFN)
National Treatment Principle (NT)

What are WTO’s rules and principles?

Why did China want to enter?

The World Trade Organization (WTO, 1995-)
It deals with the rules of trade between nations at a global or near-global level.
= GATT + Dispute settlement mechanism + others

What had China promised?

Why are there still trade frictions?
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Rules are set through negotiations
NT
MFN
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Annual renewal

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WTO/GATT negotiation rounds
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predicted duration of Doha round

The Sixth WTO Ministerial
Conference, Doha Round was held in Hong Kong, China from 13 to 18 December 2005.
Successful? Agreed to extend the talk

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d ra n (m n s) u tio o th

January 1, 2005? 39 months

http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/m in05_e/min05_e.htm Tokyo
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Kennedy

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Torquay
Geneva II

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April 1, 2010: 102 months

Dillon

Annecy

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Uruguay

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number of participants

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China’s WTO accession

Agreement and implementation
Bind all tariffs. The average tariff for industrial goods will fall to 8.9% and to 15% for agriculture. Most tariff cuts will be made by 2004; all cuts will occur

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