China's Compliance with World Trade Organization Obligations: A Review of China's 1st Two Years of Membership

摘要

China's accession to the World Trade Organization at the end of 2001 was and is an historic event and a great experiment. Because China is a huge country, with a very rapidly expanding economic base and an economy which continues to reflect significant state involvement in decisions of resource allocation, there was no certainty at the time of accession that China's economic system would mesh well with the World Trade Organization rules and other trading partners generally market-oriented economies.