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China and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement /

3 May 2016

Although China is the FTZ Free Trade Zone second-largest economy in the world, it is not part of the GATS General Agreement on Trade in Services TPP, which makes the issue of China’s reaction to the TPP important. [...] The USTR states that national treatment; most-favoured-nation treatment; the TPP parties commit to ensure the free flow of the global market access, which provides that no TPP country may information and data that drive the Internet and the digital impose quantitative restrictions on the supply of services economy, subject to legitimate public policy objectives such or require a specific type of l [...] The USTR says that the communication of the grounds for the selection of chosen TPP parties share a strong commitment to protecting and regulatory alternatives and the nature of the regulation conserving the environment, including working together being introduced. [...] The USTR THE TPP IS NOT A MAJOR THREAT TO states that the TPP parties need to ensure that their laws, CHINA regulations and administrative rulings of general application with respect to any matter covered by the TPP are publicly The TPP Agreement is important, not only because the 12 available and that, to the extent possible, regulations that member countries encompass about 40 percent of world a [...] Concerns on Trade Policy The USTR summary says the Administrative and China has experienced high trade growth after its Institutional Provisions chapter sets out the institutional accession to the WTO in 2001, and now it is the largest framework by which the parties will assess and guide exporting country in the world.

Authors

Chunding, Li, Whalley, John

Pages
20
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario