March 1995The authors analyze the new Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) that was negotiated between a subset of General Agreement on Tariffs an Trade (GATT) members in the Uruguay Round, focusing especially on the expansion of coverage to services and on the strengthening of enforcement...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Annex 1A Agreements Dealing with Customs Procedures -- 1.1 Clearing Goods through Customs -- 1.2 ILA -- 1.3 CVA -- 1.4 The Agreement on Preshipment Inspection (PSI) -- 1.5 Trade Facilitation -- 1.6 Concluding Remarks -- 2 Antidumping -- 2.1 The...

China's accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001 was hailed as the natural conclusion of a long march that started with the reforms of Deng Xiaoping in the 1970s. However, China's participation in the WTO has been anything but smooth. Its self-proclaimed socialist market economy system...