WTO Competition Policy Negotiations and the Choices of Developing Countries

Author: Zhang Dongjiang
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: This book is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 analyzes the relevant concepts of competition policy and the multilateral cooperation process, clarifying the concepts and interrelationships of competition, competition policy, and competition law, as well as trade, trade policy, and competition policy. It further examines the evolution of competition policy from bilateral to regional to multilateral cooperation and its three key agreements, serving as the theoretical foundation and logical starting point for the entire study. Chapter 2 focuses on the two main points of divergence in the WTO Doha Round competition policy negotiations, elaborating on the mainstream positions and key arguments of developed and developing member countries. It analyzes the causes of the, revealing that the essence of the disagreement lies in the contradictory interaction between the convergence trend of competition policy and the economic sovereignty of member states. Chapter 3 first traces the development of Western competition theory to find a "common language" to bridge the. Through empirical and experiential analysis, it demonstrates that developing countries are also beneficiaries of global economic competition. Appropriate compromises would mean that the WTO could introduce competition policy earlier, which would be beneficial for developing countries to constructively participate in the formulation of multilateral competition rules, establish a fair international competition order, correctly handle the relationship between competition policy and industrial policy, and align with the needs of legal globalization and modernization. In the end, the chapter concludes that this choice is more beneficial than detrimental and falls within the tolerance range of sovereignty transfer for developing countries. Chapter 4 primarily discusses the improvement of China's competition legal system. The natural continuation of the research in the previous three chapters should be the study of the improvement of China's competition legal system, which is also necessary to align with the WTO rule system.