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arycommodities and semi-finished parts. 2 It is also the developing world’s largest recipientof direct foreign investment.
Given its size, the pace of its expansion, and its outward orientation, China islikely to have a growing impact on the global trading system and its policies are likely tohave an important influence on the system’s evolution. These policies have been as
dynamic as its trade and investment performance. In 2001 after fourteen years ofnegotiations, China became a full member of the WTO, assuming obligations that are at1 In 2003 and 2004 china accounted for 10.6 and 8.9 of the growth in world imports and 10.5 and 9.7 of
world exports.
2 Having assumed the ranks of the world’s third largest trader, Chinese trade policies will now be subject tothe WTO Trade review mechanism every two years – a treatment reserved for countries with large trade
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Table A1: Distribution of submissions over areas and issues (2003) China WTO
Series WTO body DDA Ind. Joint Total Individual
48 17 65
Ruling Bodies
WT/MIN
(03)/ Ministerial Conference, Doha X 1 4 5
WT/GC/ General Council 1 5 6
TN/C/ Trade Negotiations Committee X 1 1 2
Agriculture
G/AG/ Committee on Agriculture 2 2
TN/AG/ Committee on Agriculture - Special Session X 1 1
G/SPS/ Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures 3 3
Non-Agriculture Market Access (NAMA)
G/C/ Council for Trade in Goods (except trade facilitation) 1 1
TN/MA/ Negotiating Group on Market Access X 1 1
G/MA/ Committee on Market Access 1 1
G/RO/ Committee on Rules of Origin
G/VAL/ Committee on Customs Valuation 1 1
G/LIC/ Committee on Import Licensing 1 1
G/IT/ Committee of Participation on the Expansion of Trade in IT prod.
G/TBT/ Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade 3 3
G/TRIMS/ Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures 1 1
G/STR/ Working Party on State Trading Enterprises
Rules
TN/RL/ Negotiating Group on Rules X 4 2 6
G/ADP/ Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices
G/ADP/AHG/ Committee on anti-Dumping Practices – WG on Implementation
G/SCM/ Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures 10 10
G/SG/ Committee on Safeguards 2 2
WT/REG/ Committee on Regional Trade Agreements
GATS
S/C/ Council for Trade in Services 2 2
TN/S/ Council for Trade in Services – Special Session X 1 3 4
S/CSC/ Committee on Specific Commitments
S/FIN/ Committee on Trade in Financial Services
S/WPDR/ Working Party on Domestic Regulation
S/WPGR/ Working Party on GATS Rules
TRIPS
IP/ Council for TRIPS 3 3
TN/IP/ Council for TRIPS - Special Session X
Singapore Issues
WT/WGTI/ WG on Relationship between Trade and Investment X 2 2
WT/WGTGP/ WG on Transparency in Government Procurement X
WT/WGTCP/ WG on Interaction between Trade and Competition Policy X 2 2
代写留学生论文G/C/ Trade facilitation (dedicated meetings of the General Council) X
Development
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WT/COMTD/ Committee on Trade and Development
TN/CTD/ Committee on Trade and Development - Special Session X
WT/BOP/ Committee on Balance-of-Payments Restrictions
WT/WGTTT/ Working Group on Trade and Transfer of Technology
WT/TDF/ Working Group on Trade, Debt and Finance
Trade and environment
WT/CTE/ Committee on Trade and Environment
TN/TE/ Committee on Trade and Environment - Special Sessions X 2 2
TN/DS/ DSU Review 4 4
Source: Nordstrom.
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