We consider an assembly system with multiple stages, multiple items, and multiple customer classes. The system consists of m production facilities, each producing a different item. Items are produced in variable batch sizes, one batch at a time, with exponentially distributed batch production...

As China enters its tenth year of WTO Membership, has the dragon brought a ‘reign of fire' to the multilateral trading system and rocked its institutional foundations? This paper will answer this question by reviewing China's participation in two key activities of the WTO, i.e., trade...

Compared with Europe and America, East Asia isa latecomer in the new gold-rush of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). In this process, China has played a significant role. This is not only due to the growing economic clout of China, but also because China has taken a conscious strategy to push for...

With the growing importance of the internet, digital trade, or electronic commerce, has become a key issue in international trade regulation. As the home to some of the largest internet companies in the world, the United States took the lead in bringing the issue into the WTO and has been the...

The China–Australia Free Trade Agreement (‘ChAFTA') reflects the latest development of trade and investment rules in regional economic integration and is of significance to the future development of the international economic legal order. Through a critical analysis of the major ChAFTA rules...

One of the most longstanding and significant issues in the U.S.-China trade war and international trade regulation in general has been the so-called “forced” technology transfer. To contribute to the ongoing debate over this issue, this article reviews the role of technology transfer in the...

The EU's New Anti-Dumping (“AD”) Methodology effectively maintains the long-standing distinction between market economies and non-market economies (“NMEs”) and continues the entrenched practice of treating China discriminatively in AD actions. China challenged this discriminatory...

This article explores China's commitments to liberalising legal services under the recently concluded China – Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA). While China's ChAFTA commitments extend beyond its commitments on legal services under the World Trade Organisation and under most of China's...