China and the World Trading System

Mattoo, Aaditya ; Subramanian, Arvind

关键词: ADVERSE EFFECTS;    AGREEMENT ON TRADE;    AGRICULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS;    AGRICULTURE;    ANTIDUMPING;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-5897
RP-ID  :  WPS5897

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The World Trade Organization has beenuntil recently an effective framework for cooperationbecause it has continually adapted to changing economicrealities. The current Doha Agenda is an aberration becauseit does not reflect one of the largest shifts in theinternational economic and trading system: the rise ofChina. Although China will have a stake in maintaining tradeopenness, an initiative that builds on but redefines theDoha Agenda would anchor China more fully in themultilateral trading system. Such an initiative would havetwo pillars. The first is a new negotiating agenda thatwould include the major issues of interest to China and itstrading partners, and thus unleash the powerful reciprocalliberalization mechanism that has driven the World TradeOrganization process to previous successes. The second isnew restraints on bilateralism and regionalism that wouldhelp preserve incentives for maintaining the current broadlynon-discriminatory trading order.