China and the World Trading System
The World Trade Organization has been until recently an effective framework for cooperation because it has continually adapted to changing economic realities. The current Doha Agenda is an aberration because it does not reflect one of the largest s...
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Language: | English |
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2012
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Summary: | The World Trade Organization has been
until recently an effective framework for cooperation
because it has continually adapted to changing economic
realities. The current Doha Agenda is an aberration because
it does not reflect one of the largest shifts in the
international economic and trading system: the rise of
China. Although China will have a stake in maintaining trade
openness, an initiative that builds on but redefines the
Doha Agenda would anchor China more fully in the
multilateral trading system. Such an initiative would have
two pillars. The first is a new negotiating agenda that
would include the major issues of interest to China and its
trading partners, and thus unleash the powerful reciprocal
liberalization mechanism that has driven the World Trade
Organization process to previous successes. The second is
new restraints on bilateralism and regionalism that would
help preserve incentives for maintaining the current broadly
non-discriminatory trading order. |
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