China in the WTO: The Birth of a New Catching-Up Strategy (St Antony's Series)

Annotation By joining the World Trade Organization China legitimizes its own brand of "catch-up" industrialization. What has been learned from the respective negotiations? What does China's entry mean for emerging Asia and the developing world at large? What implications will it have on the multilateral trading system? What is China's strategy in the fields of the environment and intellectual property rights? This book provides an authoritative assessment of these issues, with particular focus on the impact on the emerging Asian-Pacific countries China's Accession To The Wto : An Overview Of Domestic And External Implications / Carlos A. Magariños And Francisco C. Sercovich -- Negotiating Entry : Key Lessons Learned / Long Yongtu -- Implications Of China's Accession For The Asia-pacific Countries / Chae Wook And Han Hongyul -- The Competitive Impact Of China On Manufactured Exports By Emerging Economies In Asia / Sanjaya Lall And Manuel Albaladejo -- Industrial Environmental Management And The Wto Rules : The Case Of China / Ralph A. Luken And Casper Van Der Tak -- China's [i.e. China] And The Wto : A Developing Country Perspective / Julio J. Nogués -- Implications Of China's Entry In To The Wto In The Field Of Intellectual Property Rights / Long Yongtu -- Wto, Globalization And New Technology : Changing Patterns Of Competition And New Challenges For Sustainable Industrial Development / Supachai Panitchpakdi -- Concluding Remarks On The Implications Of China's Accession To The Wto For The Multilateral Trading System And Developing Countries / Long Yongtu And Carlos A. Magariños. Edited By Carlos A. Magariños, Long Yongtu, And Francisco C. Sercovich. Unido, United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Includes Papers From A Forum That Took Place On Dec. 4-5 2000 In Shanghai. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Boxes, Tables and Figures......Page 8 List of the Contributors......Page 10 Foreword......Page 12 Acknowledgements......Page 14 List of Abbreviations and Acronyms......Page 15 1 China’s Accession to the WTO: an Overview of Domestic and External Implications......Page 18 2 Negotiating Entry: Key Lessons Learned......Page 42 3 Implications of China’s Accession for the Asia-Pacific Countries......Page 53 4 The Competitive Impact of China on Manufactured Exports by Emerging Economies in Asia......Page 93 5 Industrial Environmental Management and the WTO Rules: the Case of China......Page 128 6 China and the WTO: a Developing Country Perspective......Page 160 7 Implications of China’s Entry into the WTO in the Field of Intellectual Property Rights......Page 182 8 WTO, Globalization and New Technology: Changing Patterns of Competition and New Challenges for Sustainable Industrial Development......Page 188 9 Concluding Remarks on the Implications of China’s Accession to the WTO for the Multilateral Trading System and Developing Countries......Page 196 Name Index......Page 201 Subject Index......Page 203 Magarinos (Director-General, United Nations Industrial Development Organization), Yongtu (Chief Trade Negotiator for China), and Sercovich (Senior Policy Adviser to UNIDO's Director-General) present nine papers from a forum held in December of 2000 for the purpose of identifying the domestic and external impacts of Chinese accession into the WTO. The chief concern of the forum is the potential impact of China's entry on the competitive standing of other emerging Asian economies and other developing countries, but other topics are also addressed, including the lessons of negotiating entry (as seen by Yongtu) and the likely impact on intellectual property rights Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) By joining the World Trade Organization China legitimizes its own brand of 'catch-up' industrialization. What has been learnt from the respective negotiations? What does China's entry mean for emerging Asia and the developing world at large? What implications will it have on the multilateral trading system? What is China's strategy in the fields of the environment and intellectual property rights? This book provides an authoritative assessment of these issues, with particular focus on the impact on the emerging Asian-Pacific countries. On 11 December 2001 China became the 143rd member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).