China's World Trade Organization Membership: Two Years of Assessment

Author: Zhang Hanlin
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: This book is divided into six parts: macro overview, trade disputes, agriculture, manufacturing, services, and intellectual property. It elucidates the significant and effective efforts and achievements made by China in fulfilling its commitments upon joining the WTO, identifies the problems encountered during the process, points out the inevitable subjective and objective difficulties, and provides positive, objective, and rational responses to questions raised by the WTO and other members to eliminate misunderstandings and promote the smooth development of China's foreign economic and trade relations. It also elaborates on the operation of China's domestic macro economy and various industries in the second year after joining the WTO, conducts an in-depth analysis of the underlying causes, rationally and scientifically predicts the future development trends of China's macro economy and various industries, and proposes constructive policy recommendations. The appendix provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of the "Special Safeguard Provisions" on textiles on China and offers rational recommendations.