China and the World Trading System

The key issues relating to China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) are analyzed by leading scholars in this volume. Will China's membership burden the WTO's dispute settlement system? What effects will it have upon liberalization of telecommunications, textiles, banking, insurance, copyright and patent protection within China and the rest of the world? This book considers whether the inclusion of a major non-Western power, and the tenth largest trading nation in the world, will alter the international trading system, as well as encourage domestic legal and economic reform in China.

Leading scholars consider the key issues relating to China's recent WTO accession.

Introduction: entering the new millennium Deborah Z. Cass, Brett Gerard Williams and George Barker; Part I. The World Trading System: 1. The impact of China's accession on the WTO John H. Jackson; 2. WTO membership for China: to be and not to be: is that the answer? Sylvia Ostry; 3. China and the constitutionalization of international trade law Deborah Z. Cass; Part II. The Accession: 4. China's WTO accession: the final countdown Jeffrey L. Gertler; 5. China's accession: improving market access and Australia's role and interests Graeme Thomson; Part III. China: The Domestic Sphere: 6. The state of the Chinese economy: structural changes, impacts and implications Ligang Song; 7. Trade policy reform and China's WTO accession Elena Ianchovichina and Will Martin; 8. China's WTO entry in labor surplus and Marxist terms Raj Bhala; 9. Enforcement of WTO agreements: illusion or reality? Qingjian Kong; 10. China: trade, law and human rights Alice Tay; Part IV. Trade in Goods: 11. China's interest in the WTO's deregulation of international textiles trade Ian Dickson; 12. China and the agreement on technical barriers to trade Ichiro Araki; Part V. Trade in Services and Competition Policy: 13. WTO membership and professional services regulation in China Christopher Arup; 14. The impact of accession on regulation of distribution and logistics industries in China Dene Yeaman; 15. Regulating the new economy: implications for telecommunications and e-commerce in China Ian Macintosh; 16. Segregation and convergence: the Chinese dilemma for financial services Richard Wu; 17. Adopting a competition law in China Mark Williams; Part VI. Intellectual Property: 18. Chinese trademark law and the TRIPs agreement Angela Gregory; 19. TRIPs goes East: China's interests and international trade in intellectual property Antony Taubman; 20. The impact of WTO membership on review of the TRIPS agreement Daniel Stewart and Brett Gerard Williams; Part VII. Dispute Settlement: 21. Interpreting China's accession protocol: a case study in anti-dumping Michael Lennard; 22. Dispute settlement and sub-national entities Ravi P. Kewalram.