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Chinese Law, Trade And The New Century, Robert C. Berring
Chinese Law, Trade And The New Century, Robert C. Berring
Robert Berring
China crammed a great deal of political activity into the 20th Century. In the year 1900 the Q'ing Dynasty still ruled the remnants of an ancient empire. The Q'ing conspired with rebels in the Boxer Rebellion in the hopes of expelling all foreigners from Chinese soil and returning to splendid isolation. In the year 2000 China is a superpower balancing communist theory and a capitalist market that is about to join the World Trade Organization. The intervening years saw warlords, democrats, fascists, Marxists and all stripes of communists leading the world's largest nation. As China enters the new millennium of …
A Failure To Consider: Why Lawmakers Create Risk By Ignoring Trade Obligations, David R. Kocan Professor
A Failure To Consider: Why Lawmakers Create Risk By Ignoring Trade Obligations, David R. Kocan Professor
David R. Kocan Professor
The U.S. Congress frequently passes laws facially unrelated to trade that significantly impact U.S. trade relations. These impacts are often harmful, significant, and long-lasting. Despite this fact, these bills rarely receive adequate consideration of how they will impact trade. Without this consideration, Congress cannot properly conduct a cost-benefit analysis necessary to pass effective laws. To remedy this problem, the U.S. Trade Representative should evaluate U.S. domestic law to determine whether it is consistent with international trade obligations. Moreover, the U.S. Congress committee structure should be amended so that laws that might impact trade are considered within that light. In the …
Rethinking The Rhetoric Of Antidumping: A Response To Mark Wu’S Reform Proposal, Pierce Lee Mr.
Rethinking The Rhetoric Of Antidumping: A Response To Mark Wu’S Reform Proposal, Pierce Lee Mr.
Pierce Lee Mr.
Harvard Law Professor Mark Wu, in his 2012 article “Antidumping in Asia’s Emerging Giants,” makes six proposals to reform World Trade Organization (WTO) law on antidumping (AD). One of those proposals is the requirement that all complaints for dumping be accompanied by proof of the underlying unfair trade practice that enables dumping. Wu predicts that this requirement would make it more difficult to use AD abusively so that a country could no longer “punish” foreign producers engaging in price differentiation for strategic purposes. Although Wu may be right about the short-term potential effect of this reform proposal, I do not …
Trade, Globalisation And Economic Policy, Patrick Kelly
Trade, Globalisation And Economic Policy, Patrick Kelly
Patrick Kelly
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