Trade Liberalization in China's Accession to WTO

Sebastián Claro Trade and FDI Liberalization: What to Expect from Chinas ́s Entrance to WTO? Trade and FDI liberalization: What to expect from China’s entrance to WTO?¤

Trade liberalization episodes are usually analyzed in a horizontal dimension, that is, the movement of resources across sectors due to relative price changes. This perspective underestimates an element present in many liberalization processes: the opening access of foreign ...rms to produce and sell locally. As long there exist productivity di¤erences between native and foreign ...rms and depen...

Trade and Investment Liberalization and China’s Rural Economy: Impacts and Policy Responses after China’s Accession to the WTO

Trade Policy Uncertainty and Exports: Evidence from China’s WTO Accession

To understand the effects of trade policy uncertainty on firm-level export decisions, we study firm-product data on Chinese exports to the U.S. in the years surrounding China’s 2001 WTO accession. Following predictions based on a model of heterogeneous firms, we provide empirical evidence that product-level tariff uncertainty reduction spurred a notable reallocation of export activities across ...

Wto Accession at Any Cost

The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) goal of liberalizing multilateral trade does not exist in a vacuum; that is to say, liberalizing trade is not an end in itself. The preamble to the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (“Marrakesh Agreement”), explicitly states that “[t]he Parties to this Agreement, recognizing that their relations in the field of trade and economic [endeavor]...

Wto Accession and Financial Reform in China

Top Chinese leaders regard the WTO accession as the second most important change in China’s economic policy regime, following Deng Xiaoping’s reform and opening-door policy in the late 1970s. This change will have undoubtedly profound impacts on the future course of China’s economic development. There are many discussions among academic and policy circles in China regarding the possible impacts...