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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CHINA AND THE MULTILATERAL TRADING SYSTEM
Robert Z. Lawrence
Working Paper 12759
https://www.nber.org/papers/w12759
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
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December 2006
代写留学生硕士论文Prepared for a conference on "China and Emerging Asia: Reorganizing the Global Economy?" Organized
by The Korea Institute for Economic Policy (KIEP) and Center for International Commerce and Finance
(CICF) at Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University to be held in Seoul,
Korea, May 11 & 12 2006. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
© 2006 by Robert Z. Lawrence. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs,
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China and the Multilateral Trading System
Robert Z. Lawrence
NBER Working Paper No. 12759
December 2006
JEL No. F13
ABSTRACT
This paper reviews China's multilateral and preferential trade policies. It reviews the demanding terms
of China's WTO accession, its current tariff and trade regime and its https://www.51lunwen.org/Ghostwrite/dissertation.htmlparticipation in the Doha Roundnegotiations and the institution's regular activities. The analysis concludes that China's trade policies
are broadly supportive of a rules based multilateral trading order and its behavior at the WTO is thatof a status quo power rather than one seeking major systemic changes. The discussion then turns to
China's regional trade initiatives. China has been extremely active in negotiating these and their implicationsremain uncertain. Concerns about an East Asian fortress, though, appear misplaced. Directly, and through
their impact in inducing others to respond, these FTAs could provide a powerful impetus to the processof competitive global liberalization. Countries that do implement agreements with China will findit relatively easy to open their markets to other developing countries. There is also a risk howeverthat the proliferation of FTAs will lead to web of overlapping agreements that could make the tradingsystem unnecessarily complex
Robert Z. Lawrence
JFK School of Government
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
and NBER
robert_lawrence@harvard.edu
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China and the Multilateral Trading System
For more than two decades, China’s rapid growth has been driven by its global
economic engagement. Since its accession to the WTO in 2001, foreign trade and foreign
direct investment have made even more important contributions to Chinese growth.
Between 2001 and 2005, for example, the dollar value of Chinese exports and imports
increased at annual rates of 29.3 and 25.3 percent respectively and in 2005, 58 percent of
Chinese exports originated from foreign owned firm. As a result of this performance,
China’s share in world imports increased from 3.3 in 2001 to 5.9 percent in 2004 and its
share in world exports from 3.9 percent in 2001 to 6.5 percent in 2004. This makes China
a major participant in world trade and having now surpassed Japan, the dominant trading
power in East Asia 1 China looms particularly large as an exporter of labor- intensivemanufactured goods and components and as a major importer of capital goods, prim本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。