China in Regional Trade Agreements : Environment Provisions
This report is structured in three volumes: competition provisions; environment provisions; and labor mobility provisions. The main messages of this three volumes are as follows: 1) competition laws and policies are increasingly being established a...
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World Bank
2012
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| Summary: | This report is structured in three
volumes: competition provisions; environment provisions; and
labor mobility provisions. The main messages of this three
volumes are as follows: 1) competition laws and policies are
increasingly being established at the regional level, as
they could be instrumental in supporting the benefits of
trade and investment liberalization; 2) China may want to
use the opportunity of these negotiations to: (a) further
discipline its state-owned enterprises;(b) carefully
consider the possible role of antidumping policies; and (c)
promote and lock-in domestic reforms aimed at improving its
domestic competition policies; 3) with a shift of the
development agenda from primarily pursuing growth to
achieving a more balanced and sustainable development and
taking into account China's high reliance on trade, it
may be increasingly in China's interest to pro-actively
engage its partners on environmental issues in its regional
trade agreement (RTA) negotiations; and 4) while the world
economy stands to gain massively from liberalization in the
mobility of labor, adverse popular reaction to the economic
and social impacts of immigrants has kept progress in
enhancing global labor mobility well below progress in trade
and capital liberalization. |
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