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I. |
Executive Summary |
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II. |
China’s 1st Two Years of WTO Membership |
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Compliance Efforts |
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Modification to laws, regulations |
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Committee participation |
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Technical assistance program from the WTO and member nations |
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WTO |
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(b) |
United States |
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(c) |
EU and other countries |
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The Transitional Review Mechanism |
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What is required by Article 18 of the Protocol |
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Experience in the first review |
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Timing of review issues |
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(b) |
Data supplied by China at beginning of review |
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(c) |
Willingness of China to respond to questions in writing |
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(d) |
Nature of the reports provided |
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(e) |
Issues identified by WTO Members |
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Experience in the second review |
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Procedural changes if any |
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(b) |
Data supplied by China at beginning of review |
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(c) |
Issues identified by WTO Members |
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C. |
U.S. and Private Sector Monitoring and Bilateral Approaches to Address Issues |
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Bilateral mechanisms for addressing issues |
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Monitoring programs |
127 |
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Government |
127 |
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(b) |
Private sector |
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Issues of importance identified in first two years |
143 |
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Trading rights |
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Automotive issues (financing, market access) |
153 |
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(c) |
Financial services |
158 |
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(d) |
Administration of TRQs in agriculture |
165 |
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(e) |
Tariffs |
170 |
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(f) |
VAT |
175 |
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SPS |
178 |
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Intellectual property rights |
180 |
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Subsidies |
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U.S. Use of Transitional Rights (textile safeguards; Section 421; AD NME status) |
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1. |
Protocol of accession provisions |
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2. |
U.S. implementing provisions or existing laws |
202 |
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3. |
Efforts by U.S. industries to use the provisions |
222 |
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Textile safeguards |
222 |
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(b) |
Import surges and Section 421 of the Trade Act of 1974 as amended |
228 |
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(c) |
Treatment of China as a non-market economy under U.S. antidumping duty law |
236 |
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III. |
Conclusion and Recommendations |
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