Date: 2022
Type: Working Paper
China and WTO reform
Working Paper, EUI RSC, 2022/59, Global Governance Programme-477
HOEKMAN, Bernard M., TU, Xinquan, WOLFE, R., China and WTO reform, Working Paper, EUI RSC, 2022/59, Global Governance Programme-477 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74875
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China, the EU and the U.S. are the world’s largest traders, and many of the tensions in the trading system arise in the relations among them. Our premise is that reforming WTO is a necessary condition for the organization to be a more salient forum for the three large economies to address trade tensions, and that agreement among these three trade powers in turn is necessary to resolve the problems of the WTO. After a brief discussion of the global challenges that ought to be on the WTO agenda and of the systemic context, we discuss both how China understands WTO reform, and how the other two leading powers see the China problem in the WTO. We consider how the three see transparency, plurilateral negotiations, economic development differences, fisheries and industrial subsidies, WTO working practices, and dispute settlement. We conclude by considering the implications of our analysis for fostering cooperation between the three major trade powers in the WTO.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74875
ISSN: 1028-3625
Series/Number: Working Paper; EUI RSC; 2022/59; Global Governance Programme-477
Publisher: European University Institute