The overall goal of our paper is to understand how WTO will affect the agriculture sector in China. To accomplish this … goal we have two specific objectives. First, we seek to provide measures of the distortions in China's agricultural sector … at a time immediately prior to the nation's accession to WTO. Second, we seek to assess how well integrated China …

China’s rapid rise as a leading global exporter of manufacturing goods since its accession to the WTO in 2001 has been … the focus of both admiration and, increasingly, concern, but China is also a large importer of goods, particularly … agricultural products. Since China's accession to the WTO, China agricultural exports have increased by 8 percent annually while …