The International Trading Environment and Chinas WTO Accession: Measured by the Intensity of Anti-dumping
Accession to WTO has provided a great opportunity for China to improve its international trading environment. Chinas export could enjoy lower MFn tariffs granted by WTO members. However, non-tariff measures consistent to WTO have been more frequently resorted to restrain the export from China. Antidumping is one of these kinds of non-tariff measures. This paper analyzed the change of the impact of antidumping measures comparing the pre-accession and post-accession by using the Anti-dumping Index and GAD annul data. The findings show: (1) China is the most frequently targeted country by anti-dumping measures prior to and following its accession, which to some extent can reflect the concerns of WTO member to Chinas accession; (2) The intensity of antidumping measures to Chinas export is less significant during post-accession than pre-accession, which means from the perspective of the use of antidumping Chinas international trading environment has been improving. This conclusion is quite different from the previous literatures of anti-dumping study, in which the arguments are that Chinas international trading environment has been deteriorated by antidumping. The conclusion of Chinas consistently improved international trading environment is made by dynamic analysis using annul data instead of accumulation data which usually employed by previous literature.
Chinas WTO accession International trading environment Anti-dumping Anti-dumping intensity indez
WANG Xiaowen
School of Economics, Tianjin University of Commerce, China, 300134
国际会议
天津
英文
149-153
2009-12-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）