Recent work on China's accession to the World Trade Organizations pays little attention to the wave of reforms in China in the 1980s and 1990s. These reforms created the preconditions for accession and strongly influenced its outcomes. The preeminence of processing trade at the time of accession...

Despite the disruption of the multilateral trade talks at Seattle in December 1999, the work of the World Trade Organization (WTO) continues. The trade and investment issues that have been outstanding since the Seattle events are explored in this far reaching book. The distinguished contributors...

China ist ein wichtiger Handelspartner der Europäischen Union und zudem neuer Systemwettbewerber. Sorgen bereiten aus europäischer Sicht vor allem die ökonomischen Wettbewerbsverzerrungen durch den chinesischen Staatskapitalismus, die sich zunehmend auch auf den Weltmärkten auswirken....