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2004-2005
IIEL Fellows
China's
WTO Accession
China's accession
to the World Trade Organization (WTO) is considered to be
one of the most important challenges facing China, the WTO
and the rest of the world in the near future. Without China,
the WTO membership appears to be incomplete and its pretensions
to universality somewhat hollow. However, China's accession
also raises serious legal questions: necessary legislative
and statutory changes in Chinese legislation pursuant to
WTO accession will be required and serious new constraints
will be placed on Chinese policy in order to conform with
the WTO rules. On the other hand, China's membership undoubtedly
will affect some of the key WTO rules and policies, particularly
by giving China a voice in future WTO policymaking.
The IIEL therefore initiated a research project
entitled, "Effects of China's Accession to the WTO," which
aims to document - over the next several years - some of
the legal, political and structural issues faced by China
in light of its accession and, also, the influence of Chinese
legal culture and diplomacy on several of the key concerns
currently facing the WTO. The first phase of the Project
will lead to the publication of a Symposium book consisting
of papers addressing ongoing questions of immediate policy
importance for business and government in the United States
and China. The authors invited to participate in this symposium
will include experienced and qualified Chinese and US scholars
and practitioners with extensive expertise in the Chinese
economy and legal system as well as the world trading system
and the WTO. The second stage of the Project, building upon
the outcome of the symposium, will consist of various research
studies on more specific topics related to China's WTO accession.
This site therefore intends to serve as a portal
to a lot of the information that is available on China.
In particular, this site provides links to documents, bibliographies,
articles and news on China's accession process as well as
to institutions and foundations that provide interesting
and useful information on China in general and on the WTO
accession in particular.
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