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China – Tariff Rate Quotas for Certain Agricultural Products. Against the Grain: Can the WTO Open Chinese Markets? A Contaminated Experiment

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  • Glauber, Joseph
  • Lester, Simon

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The US complaint about Chinese tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on certain grain products helps illustrate several key issues in US–China trade relations and the effectiveness of WTO disputes. First, do international obligations based on transparency and fairness work in relation to an authoritarian country not known for the rule of law domestically? Second, can there be a disconnect between the legal aspects of a dispute and the underlying economic interests, with a DSB ruling sometimes not leading to improved trade flows? And third, given the bilateral trade war and ‘phase one’ trade deal between the United States and China, has the WTO been superseded in this trade relationship? This paper summarizes the facts and law of the China–TRQs dispute, and examines each of these questions in that context.

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  • Glauber, Joseph & Lester, Simon, 2021. "China – Tariff Rate Quotas for Certain Agricultural Products. Against the Grain: Can the WTO Open Chinese Markets? A Contaminated Experiment," World Trade Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 20(4), pages 405-420, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:wotrrv:v:20:y:2021:i:4:p:405-420_3
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    1. Assem Akhmetova & Zulfiya Baimagambetova, 2023. "Sustainable development factors and features of resolving grain trade disputes in the WTO," RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA', FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 0(1 suppl.), pages 47-63.

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