The Evolution of the Non-market Economy Treatment in the Multilateral Trading System

This book tries to integrate the different arrangements devised in the MTS for small and large NMEs into one analytical framework and explores two sets of rules (GATT/WTO-minus and GATT/WTO-plus) along three historical stages (shaping, weakening and strengthening). The focal point of this book is to uncover the composition and structure of the NME treatment in the MTS, its evolving logic and process, and the nature and trend of the political-economic relations between NMEs and the MTS.

Provides an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis of the principle and the evolution of the NME treatment in the MTS. Examines the historical development of the key NME rules on both domestic and multilateral levels and compares individual rules between times and their different treatments of individual MNE members. Covers the whole set of NME rules in the MTS, all the NME members on which the NME treatment has been imposed, and all the key market economy members which have implemented such rules.

Autorentext
Bin Zhang is Professor of Economics at Donghua University. He is the author of The Benchmark for Measuring Subsidy Benefits: An International Comparison of Rules and Practices in Chinese.

Inhalt
Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 The Non-market Economy Treatment: Theoretical Perspectives.- Chapter 3 The Origin of the Non-market Economy Treatment.- Chapter 4 The Non-market Economy Treatment for Small Planned Economies.- Chapter 5 The Non-market Economy Treatment for Small Transition Economies.- Chapter 6 Large Non-market Economies' Accession to the Multilateral Trading System.- Chapter 7 China's Non-market Economy Treatment in the Multilateral Trading System.- Chapter 8 The Future of China's Non-market Economy Treatment in the Multilateral Trading System.