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How Should China Respond to Trump’s New Round of Trade War? An Unprecedented Debate Among Chinese IR Scholars 特朗普发动新一轮贸易战,中国应如何应对?中国国际关系学者之间前所未有的争论
IF 0.8 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.54648/trad2020042
Weizhan Meng, Xinkai Zeng
The US-China trade war finally broke out in 2018 after more than a decade of gradual decline in bilateral relations. This article reviews the fierce debates among China’s most prominent international relations (IR) scholars and, respectively, some economists and business elites on various topics related to US-China relations, in particular, the trade war, from 2017 to 2020. Specifically, it addresses four topics: the causes for the decline in US-China relations, Beijing’s policy and strategy for dealing with Trump’s trade war, the impact of the ‘decoupling’ on China and the prospects for future bilateral relations. Intellectual elites try to influence government policies by participating in debates while the government also applies various means to influence scholars’ views and shape public opinion on the Internet. The article finds that Chinese scholars’ discussions on the trade war and Beijing’s policies were actually influenced by factors other than trade. If Washington adopts appropriate policies in the future, Beijing may still make concessions in the interests of the United States on trade and security issues.
经过十多年双边关系的逐渐恶化,中美贸易战终于在2018年爆发。本文回顾了2017年至2020年中国最著名的国际关系(IR)学者、一些经济学家和商业精英就与中美关系有关的各种话题(特别是贸易战)展开的激烈辩论。具体而言,它涉及四个主题:美中关系下降的原因,北京应对特朗普贸易战的政策和战略,“脱钩”对中国的影响以及未来双边关系的前景。知识精英试图通过参与辩论来影响政府的政策,而政府也通过各种手段影响学者的观点,在互联网上塑造舆论。文章发现,中国学者对贸易战和中国政府政策的讨论实际上受到了贸易以外因素的影响。如果华盛顿在未来采取适当的政策,北京可能仍然会在贸易和安全问题上为美国的利益做出让步。
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Adjudicating Security Exceptions in WTO Law: Methodical and Procedural Preliminaries WTO法律中担保例外的裁决:方法与程序的初步探讨
IF 0.8 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.54648/trad2020036
W. Weiss
As WTO members increasingly invoke security exceptions and the first panel report insofar was issued in Russia – Traffic in Transit, the methodical and procedural preliminaries of their adjudication must be reassessed. The preliminaries pertain to justiciability and to the proper interpretive approach for their vague terms that seemingly imply considerable discretion to WTO members, all the more as general exceptions are subject to expansive interpretation. Reading security exceptions expansively appears not viable as they miss the usual safeguard against abuse (i.e. the chapeau of Articles XX GATT/XIV GATS). This lack of safeguards rather suggests caution in conceptualising them expansively, as do the systemic consequences of recent attempts to re-politicize security exceptions which run the risk of nullifying the concept of multilateral trade regulation altogether. Furthermore, the appropriate standards of review and proof must be explored which have to strike a balance between control and deference in national security.
随着世贸组织成员越来越多地援引安全例外,以及迄今为止第一份专家组报告是在俄罗斯发布的——《过境交通》,必须重新评估其裁决的方法和程序初步程序。初步条款涉及可诉性和对其模糊条款的适当解释方法,这些条款似乎意味着世贸组织成员有相当大的自由裁量权,特别是一般例外情况受到广泛解释。广泛地阅读安全例外似乎是不可用的,因为它们错过了通常的防止滥用的保障措施(即GATT/XIV GATS第XX条的序言)。缺乏保障反而表明要谨慎地将它们广泛地概念化,最近企图将安全例外重新政治化的系统性后果也是如此,因为这种例外有可能使多边贸易管制的概念完全无效。此外,必须探讨适当的审查和证明标准,以便在国家安全方面的控制和服从之间取得平衡。
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引用次数: 4
China’s Preferential Treatment on Trade in Services: Is the Sleeping Dragon About to Wake Up? 中国的服务贸易优惠待遇:沉睡的巨龙即将醒来吗?
IF 0.8 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.54648/trad2020038
G. Gari
This article examines China’s specific commitments and rules on trade in services included in its Preferential Trade Agreements. The findings reveal that so far such agreements include only modest improvements compared with General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). At the same time, the article argues that structural changes in China’s economy and a conducive policy environment are likely to stretch China’s preferential treatment on trade in services in years to come. However, the article warns that the dragon will remain particularly cautious to undertake new commitments that could limit its policy space to maintain its socialist market economy system, including disciplines on state owned enterprises, subsidies, competition and monopolies and exclusive service suppliers, data flows and regulatory coherence.
本文考察了中国在优惠贸易协定中关于服务贸易的具体承诺和规则。调查结果显示,到目前为止,与服务贸易总协定(GATS)相比,这类协定的改善幅度不大。与此同时,文章认为,中国经济的结构性变化和有利的政策环境可能会在未来几年延长中国在服务贸易方面的优惠待遇。然而,文章警告称,中国在做出可能限制其维持社会主义市场经济体制的政策空间的新承诺时将格外谨慎,包括对国有企业、补贴、竞争、垄断和排他性服务供应商、数据流动和监管一致性的约束。
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引用次数: 4
Judicial Conflicts between Panels and the Appellate Body in the WTO Safeguard Jurisprudence WTO保障法学中专家组与上诉机构的司法冲突
IF 0.8 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.54648/trad2020041
Duk-Kyun Ahn, Hyerim Kim
Interestingly, there occur huge discrepancies in understanding and interpretation of the safeguard system between the World Trade Organization (WTO) panels and the Appellate Body (AB), even in its core concepts ranging from pre-conditions such as unforeseen developments to import increases, causation, types of injury, and permissible extent of the measure. These phenomena, which originate from the different approaches – contextual or literal – have contributed to the current debacles in the WTO dispute settlement system as well as egregious misuse of safeguard measures by WTO members. Future endeavours to reform the WTO system should therefore pay more attention to the safeguard system, especially where it causes unsettling jurisprudence.
有趣的是,世界贸易组织(WTO)专家组和上诉机构(AB)对保障制度的理解和解释存在巨大差异,即使是在其核心概念上,从不可预见的发展等先决条件到进口增加、因果关系、损害类型和措施的允许程度。这些现象源于不同的方法-上下文或字面-促成了当前世贸组织争端解决机制的崩溃以及世贸组织成员对保障措施的严重滥用。因此,今后改革世贸组织体制的努力应更多地关注保障制度,特别是在保障制度引起令人不安的判例方面。
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US–China Trade War An Impetus for New Norms on Technology Transfer 中美贸易战催生技术转让新规范
IF 0.8 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.54648/trad2020040
Ronald Eberhard Tundang
This article argues that the trade dispute between United States (US) and China should be an impetus for new rules and norms regarding technology transfer at the World Trade Organization (WTO). Technology transfer is a desirable outcome under WTO rules, including the Trade-Related Intellectual property Rights Agreement. However, Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) have failed to effectively promote and facilitate technology transfer. The problem lies in the nature of the intellectual property rights that TRIPs are intended to protect and enforce. Though necessary, by conferring exclusive rights to its holder, intellectual property rights have the unintended consequences of inhibiting competition and technology transfer. Furthermore, it may impede the transfer of technology from developed countries to developing countries where firms often lack the capacity to further innovate the technology it has acquired. This article proposes new norms at the WTO, in particular the TRIPs and SCM Agreement, to improve its efficacy in promoting and facilitating technology transfer.
本文认为,美国和中国之间的贸易争端应该成为世界贸易组织(WTO)关于技术转让的新规则和规范的推动力。根据世贸组织规则,包括《与贸易有关的知识产权协定》,技术转让是一个理想的结果。然而,与贸易有关的知识产权(TRIPs)未能有效促进和便利技术转让。问题在于《与贸易有关的知识产权协定》旨在保护和执行的知识产权的性质。知识产权虽然是必要的,但由于赋予其持有者专有权,它会产生抑制竞争和技术转让的意想不到的后果。此外,它可能妨碍从发达国家向发展中国家转让技术,因为发展中国家的公司往往缺乏进一步革新其所获得的技术的能力。本文提出了世贸组织的新规范,特别是《与贸易有关的知识产权协定》和《SCM协定》,以提高其在促进和便利技术转让方面的效力。
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Reforming WTO Subsidy Rules: Past Experiences and Prospects WTO补贴规则改革的经验与展望
IF 0.8 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.54648/trad2020037
Siqiwen Li, Xinquan Tu
Subsidies are a critical instrument in the toolbox that national governments use to address market failures and achieve a variety of policy goals. However, critics often arise to point out the inefficiencies and economic distortions that subsidies create, which raise the question of whether the existing WTO subsidy rules are adequate, and how to reshape WTO subsidy rules to address new emerging concerns especially in a global value-chain world. This article first reviews WTO Members’ subsidy-related proposals under the Doha Development Agenda and then addresses key concerns on subsidy rules in the current broader discussion of the WTO reform, trying to figure out feasible approaches toward shaping a ‘new generation’ of subsidy rules under the aegis of the WTO.
补贴是国家政府用来解决市场失灵和实现各种政策目标的工具箱中的关键工具。然而,批评者经常指出补贴造成的效率低下和经济扭曲,这就提出了现有的WTO补贴规则是否足够的问题,以及如何重塑WTO补贴规则以解决新出现的问题,特别是在全球价值链的世界中。本文首先回顾了世贸组织成员在多哈发展议程下提出的与补贴有关的建议,然后阐述了当前有关世贸组织改革的更广泛讨论中对补贴规则的关键关注,试图找出在世贸组织支持下形成“新一代”补贴规则的可行方法。
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引用次数: 2
Hurdles to Litigating Trade Defence Measures Before the EU Courts 在欧盟法院提起贸易保护措施诉讼的障碍
IF 0.8 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.54648/trad2020039
A. Moroni, Bregt Natens, A. Willems
EU institutions often use trade defence measures to shield EU industries from competition. These measures come at the expense of importers and foreign exporting producers. The most feasible avenue for importers and exporting producers to obtain a practicable remedy is by challenging an adverse trade defence measure before the EU Courts. However, the EU Courts have adopted a strict approach to challenges to trade defence measures, which increasingly requires sophisticated litigation strategies to overcome multiple hurdles. First, the standing requirements to have a case admitted are stringent. Second, the burden to prove substantive or procedural errors in trade defence proceedings is high. Third, even if a case is successful, the EU Courts recognize that the EU institutions almost unbridled discretion in implementing judgments. These hurdles to litigating trade defence measures risk curtailing the role of the EU Courts in limiting the Commission’s powers in a way that maintains proper checks and balances. They also put on applicants the task to develop tools and arguments to address and overcome these hurdles.
欧盟机构经常使用贸易保护措施来保护欧盟产业免受竞争。这些措施是以进口商和外国出口生产商的利益为代价的。进出口生产商获得切实可行的补救措施的最可行途径是向欧盟法院挑战不利的贸易防御措施。然而,欧盟法院对贸易保护措施的挑战采取了严格的做法,这越来越需要复杂的诉讼策略来克服多重障碍。首先,受理案件的资格要求是严格的。其次,在贸易抗辩程序中证明实质性或程序性错误的负担很高。第三,即使案件成功,欧盟法院也承认欧盟机构在执行判决时几乎不受约束的自由裁量权。对贸易保护措施提起诉讼的这些障碍,可能会削弱欧盟法院在限制欧盟委员会权力、维持适当制衡方面的作用。他们还要求申请人开发工具和论据来解决和克服这些障碍。
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Trade Remedy Rules for Digital Services: Inapplicability of GATT-type Safeguard Rules 数字服务贸易救济规则:关贸总协定式保障规则的不适用性
IF 0.8 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.54648/trad2020035
Nayu Kim
Digitalization considerably complicates the application of previous trade remedy norms to the new and expanding digital services trade, and there is a need to reprioritize and restructure the existing framework to reflect this difference. Emergency safeguard is an essential element in the trade regime, but the classic concept of GATT-type safeguard measures that is based on a dichotomy of tariff and nontariff barriers and clear-cut rules between goods and services are not suitable for regulating the expanding digital services transactions where barriers tend to be much more diverse and less obvious. Hence, a new trade remedy framework must incorporate the elements of convergence, interconnectedness and externality, while taking a sectoral approach, as generic rules on trade remedies that cater to all possible scenarios and sectors are no longer suitable in these realms. It must prioritize rules-making on subsidies and domestic tax schemes, while also considering for issues specific to the digital features such as data flow restrictions and their implications.Digital trade, digital services, trade remedy rules, emergency safeguard, GATT
数字化使以前的贸易救济规范在新的和不断扩大的数字服务贸易中的应用变得相当复杂,需要重新确定现有框架的优先次序并对其进行重组,以反映这种差异。紧急保障是贸易制度中的一个基本要素,但基于关税和非关税壁垒的二分法以及商品和服务之间的明确规则的关贸总协定型保障措施的经典概念不适合监管不断扩大的数字服务交易,因为在这些交易中,壁垒往往更加多样化,也不那么明显。因此,新的贸易救济框架必须纳入趋同、相互联系和外部性的要素,同时采取部门方法,因为满足所有可能情况和部门的贸易救济通用规则不再适合这些领域。它必须优先考虑补贴和国内税收计划的制定规则,同时考虑数据流限制及其影响等数字特征特有的问题。数字贸易、数字服务、贸易救济规则、紧急保障、关贸总协定
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A Trade Policy Agenda for the Diffusion of Low-Carbon Technologies 低碳技术扩散的贸易政策议程
IF 0.8 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.54648/trad2020033
Zakeri Ahmad
This article proposes that the function of trade rules with respect to low-carbon technology diffusion should be to address the identified market-related barriers preventing cross-border dispersion of the necessary technologies. By doing so, it seeks to expand the discussion in the WTO regarding trade, technology transfer, and climate change beyond the traditional confines of intellectual property issues. To that effect, it outlines a new framework against the normative background of Common Concern of Humankind, an emerging legal doctrine. This is further followed by highlighting the key areas of action, which includes - market access reform to reduce costs, process and production measures (PPMs) to increase demand for clean technologies, and making rational and appropriate incentives available domestically and also for exports.Trade and Climate, Low-carbon technology diffusion, Transfer of technology, Market failure, Technology market reform, Common concern of humankind
本文提出,贸易规则在低碳技术扩散方面的作用应该是解决已确定的与市场有关的障碍,防止必要技术的跨境扩散。通过这样做,它试图将世贸组织关于贸易、技术转让和气候变化的讨论扩大到知识产权问题的传统范围之外。为此,它在“人类共同关注”这一新兴法律学说的规范背景下,概述了一个新的框架。随后进一步强调了关键的行动领域,其中包括:市场准入改革以降低成本,工艺和生产措施以增加对清洁技术的需求,以及在国内和出口方面提供合理和适当的激励措施。贸易与气候、低碳技术扩散、技术转让、市场失灵、技术市场改革、人类共同关注
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Countervailing Measures and China’s Accession Protocol to the WTO 反补贴措施与中国加入WTO议定书
IF 0.8 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.54648/trad2020032
Pieter Van Vaerenbergh, Marc Bungenberg
The existing policy tools of the European Union (EU) to fight against dumping and foreign subsidies do not cover all potential effects of foreign subsidies or support schemes by third countries on the EU internal market. As part of the ongoing discussions to address these distortive subsidies, this article highlights section 15(b) of China’s Accession Protocol to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The provision remains largely unexplored, both in practice and in case law, but offers advantages in its application compared to the normal trade remedy calculation rules: There is no explicit stipulation of an expiration (no fifteen-year timeframe), the threshold to rely on the section is relatively low (only ‘special difficulties’ need to exist), and the way how to determine the benchmarks for the benefit is open (both adjustments and alternative methodologies are foreseen). Particularly, within the stage of examination of ‘special difficulties’, the Commission has considerable latitude and may introduce a shift of burden of proof, putting the onus on Chinese exporters to prove they do not benefit from state subsidies. WTO Members should start conducting well-coordinated countervailing investigations domestically and initiate cases at the WTO at the same time to find out where the WTO system sets the limits of applying section 15(b) Chinese Accession Protocol (CAP).Countervailing Duties, Anti-Subsidy, China’s Accession Protocol, section 15(b) CAP, Industrial Policy, Foreign Subsidies, State-Owned Enterprises, Burden of Proof, Alternative Benchmarks, Subsidy Benefit
欧盟现有的打击倾销和外国补贴的政策工具并没有涵盖第三国外国补贴或支持计划对欧盟内部市场的所有潜在影响。作为解决这些扭曲补贴的持续讨论的一部分,本文重点介绍了中国加入世界贸易组织(WTO)议定书第15(b)条。无论在实践中还是在判例法中,这一规定在很大程度上仍未得到探索,但与正常的贸易救济计算规则相比,它在适用方面具有优势:没有明确规定期限(没有15年的时间框架),依赖该条款的门槛相对较低(只需要存在“特殊困难”),如何确定利益基准的方式是开放的(调整和替代方法都是可以预见的)。特别是,在“特殊困难”的审查阶段,欧盟委员会有相当大的自由,可以引入举证责任的转移,使中国出口商有责任证明他们没有从国家补贴中受益。世贸组织成员应开始在国内开展协调良好的反补贴调查,同时在世贸组织提起诉讼,以查明世贸组织制度在适用《中国加入议定书》(CAP)第15条(b)款方面设置的限制。反补贴税,反补贴,中国加入议定书,CAP第15(b)条,产业政策,外国补贴,国有企业,举证责任,替代基准,补贴利益
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