The Evolution of the Non-market Economy Treatment in the Multilateral Trading System
This book tries to integrate the different arrangements devised in the MTS for small and large NMEs into one analytical framework and explores two sets of rules (GATT/WTO-minus and GATT/WTO-plus) along three historical stages (shaping, weakening and stren
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The Evolution of the Nonmarket Economy Treatment in the Multilateral Trading System
The Evolution of the Non-market Economy Treatment in the Multilateral Trading System
Bin Zhang
The Evolution of the Non-market Economy Treatment in the Multilateral Trading System
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Bin Zhang Economics and Trade Donghua University Shanghai China
ISBN 978-981-13-0652-5 ISBN 978-981-13-0653-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0653-2
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To my family and my teachers
Foreword
China’s non-market economy (NME) status in the multilateral trading system (MTS), or conversely, the WTO and its key members’ NME treatment of China in their antidumping regulations, has been one of the focal issues in the relationship between China and the MTS. The issue reignited an extensive concern in 2016 because of the controversial provisions contained in paragraph 15 of the Protocol on the Accession of China. In fact, the NME treatment in the MTS has not been confined to a particular trade remedy measure. Neither has it been targeted at one particular NME country. It is a set of institutional arrangements devised in the development process of the relationship between NMEs and the MTS since the 1960s. Drawing on the theories and concepts of
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