Journal article
Challenges for WTO Implementation: Lessons from China's Deep Integration into an International Trade Regime
The Journal of contemporary China, Vol.11(32), pp.413-431
08/01/2002
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/117854
Abstract
The People's Republic of China's formal accession to the World Trade Organization begins a process of deep integration that will require the implementation, monitoring, & enforcement of newly harmonized standards. This article identifies challenges in that deep integration process, drawing on data from China's 10-year struggle to implement, monitor, & enforce international standards for the certification & marketing of organic agriculture products. The political economy of rural China is described as a fragmented entrepreneurial state in which officials use state authority to privilege market activity. This creates a set of structural barriers & elicits local state resistance to the implementation of international trade regimes. State entrepreneurs pursue alternative forms of compliance, disguise state participation in the market, & exploit their control over information, to resist monitoring & enforcement regimes. Adapted from the source document.
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- Title
- Challenges for WTO Implementation: Lessons from China's Deep Integration into an International Trade Regime
- Creators
- Paul Thiers
- Publication Details
- The Journal of contemporary China, Vol.11(32), pp.413-431
- Academic Unit
- Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, School of
- Identifiers
- 99900548462701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article