International Trade Basics (Second Edition)

Author: Yuan Yongyou, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-11-09
Features: Based on adhering to the original textbook structure, fundamental knowledge points, and distinctive features, some revisions and supplements have been made to this textbook. The main revisions and supplements are as follows:
1. New knowledge in the development of international trade. Such as new forms of non-tariff barriers in international trade policies: environmental barriers, social barriers; the eastward expansion of the European Union; the increase in members of the World Trade Organization; and the progress of the Doha Round, etc.
2. Changes in the development of China's foreign trade and its laws, policies, and management methods. Such as new developments and changes in China's foreign economic and trade after its entry into the WTO; the implementation of the new "Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of China" in 2004; changes in administrative management and macro-control measures for foreign trade, etc.
3. Changes in China's foreign trade relations. Such as the development of China's relations with the North American Free Trade Agreement, ASEAN, and Pakistan; the launch of the China-ASEAN goods trade tariff reduction plan; and the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) between the mainland and Hong Kong and Macau, etc.
4. Changes in China's foreign trade development strategy. Such as the requirements of the 16th National Congress on the "double" goal of national economic development for China's foreign trade development; the requirements of the "11th Five-Year Plan" for foreign economic and trade development; the transformation of the growth mode of foreign economic and trade; the development of service trade; and the content of the "Technology-Driven Foreign Trade" strategy, etc.