Chinas Foreign Trade Policy : The New Constituencies

Chinas rise as a major trading power has prompted debate about the nature of that countrys involvement in the liberal international economic order. Chinas Foreign Trade Policy sheds light on this complex question by examining the changing domestic forces shaping Chinas foreign trade relations.

Specifically, this book explores the evolving trade policymaking process in China by looking at:

• Chinas WTO accession negotiation
• Chinas bilateral trade disputes
• The development of Chinas antidumping regime
• Chinas emerging trade disputes in the WTO.

In addition, Ka Zeng examines how lobbying patterns in China are becoming more open and pluralistic, with bureaucratic agencies, sectoral interests, regional interests, and even transnational actors increasingly able to influence the process and outcome of Chinas trade negotiations.

Using case studies of Chinas trade disputes with its major trading partners, as well as Chinas participation in the dispute settlement process of the World Trade Organization, to present an in-depth analysis of Chinas trade relations, this book will appeal to students and scholars of international political economy, Chinese politics and foreign policy, and more generally Asian studies.