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-Chinas a whole has entered the crucial stage of industrialization and urbanization. And the strong domestic demand will keep its economy growing continuously.
- Continued structural innovation has made Chinese economy increasingly dynamic. The market now plays an essential role in the allocation of resources. The public sector has become more vigorous thanks to restructuring, reorganization and upgrading, and the non-public sectors have made giant strides.
- The Chinese Government is more capable of macro-economic control and regulation. We successfully coped with the impact of the Asian financial crisis, and managed to pull off an 8.5 percent growth this year, despite the SARS epidemic.
-China's opening-up is getting even wider and its investment environment better, China is now one of the world's safest places. We have done a fruitful work in honoring our WTO commitments, and more and more foreign investors have been attracted to China.
Given the above, we are confident in our ability to maintain an economic growth rate of around 7 percent for a long time to come, reaching a GDP level of over 4 trillion US dollars by 2020. In the next three years, China plans to import over 1 trillion US dollars worth of goods, and its service sector will open still wider to the outside world. The rapidly growing Chinese economy will not only benefit the 1.3 billion Chinese people, but expand the horizon of trade and economic cooperation between China and other countries, the US included, creating a huge number of opportunities for Chinese and American businesses.
The Chinese Government will continue to encourage foreign investment and protect foreign investors in China. As its consumption structure and industrial structure upgrade, China needs more and more advanced know-how, equipment and services. The southeast coastal region of China, in particular, is well poised to becoming home to a number of manufacturing hubs. Moreover, while we are pressing ahead with the western development program, the large-scale overhaul of Northeast China and other old industrial bases is under way. American business and financial communities are welcome to seize these opportunities and expand their presence in the Chinese market. We want to see more large US firms working together with Chinese enterprises, and we hope the small and medium-sized US firms can also join in.
Let me tell you this, I plan to make a proposal to President Bush to raise the level of the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, so as to better serve bilateral trade and economic cooperation. I am sure he will agree with me. Ladies and Gentlemen,
China's development relies mainly on domestic demand. We do not seek long-standing, excessive trade surplus, but work to maintain a basic balance between import and export. We hope the two sides will set store by the larger interests of China-US relations, seize the opportunities by
enhancing trust and dispelling suspicion, and work persistently to bring bilateral trade and economic cooperation to a new high.
As a famous American saying goes, \work together with our friends from the US business and financial communities to open a new chapter in China-US trade and economic cooperation. Thank you.
Unit Three
(Weeks 4& 5)
Skill: E-C sight interpretation
Material: Presentation by Mr. Andrew Stoler at the Shenzhen & WTO Forum 2003 In-class activities:
1. Teacher’s analysis:
a) Major differences between English and Chinese
汉语重内在意念，不重外在形式，句型复杂多样。有整句（有主谓结构），还有大量的零句（词或词组构成）
Grammatical or logic devices are more often used in English, clearly indicating the relations between phrases, clauses and other elements.
b) In E-C interpretation, a linear approach is adopted.
c) For preparation, English sentences are divided into units of information. d) Various E-C translation techniques: Addition, Omission, Conversion
Examples:
1）. Among the most important are: the most favoured nation rule/ which ensures that China is not treated less well than/ any other WTO member.
最重要的包括：最惠国待遇保障中国享受与其他WTO成员国同样的待遇。
2）. A separate agreement on import licensing procedures/ ensures that these requirements are not imposed in discriminatory or trade restrictive ways.
还有一个单独的协议涉及进口许可程序，它保证这些规则的实行，不得进行歧视，或者限制进口。
3）. Member governments must provide due process to traders/ in procedures having to do with investigations/ like those conducted for anti-dumping purposes.
成员国政府必须提供合理的程序，给贸易商，涉及与调查有关的程序，象反倾销那样的。
4）. The only exceptions permitted to these non-discriminatory provisions /are those which are allowed in connection with a WTO Member’s participation in free trade agreements or customs
unions.
这些非歧视条款的唯一例外情况是世贸组织成员国参与了自由贸易协定或关税同盟的。
2. Students practice with the first part of the talk by Mr. Andrew Stoler. (世贸组织原副总干事 澳洲阿德雷德大学国际经济法商学院院长)
Slide 1
My presentation this morning will be divided roughly into three sections. First, I want to review some of the fundamentals about how Chinese exporters and those producers making goods for export can make use of China’s membership in the WTO to gain secure access to overseas markets. This is a combination of knowing how the system works in terms of its rules and understanding how your rights to market access are protected under WTO.
Next, I plan to discuss several special problems associated with export trade. My focus will be on antidumping actions against Chinese companies, and on the need to respect intellectual property rights.
In the third section of my talk today, I will discuss what I see as some of the big opportunities today for China to take advantage of ongoing negotiations on a number of levels. Some of these opportunities, for example, reducing tariffs through a multilateral trade negotiation, are opportunities that arise only once every ten years, so it is important not to miss the chance.
Slide 3
Returning to these areas in slightly greater depth, we can start by noting that the big difference for China of now being inside the WTO is that under the WTO system, access to markets on the basis of negotiated concessions is legally guaranteed.
WTO membership also brings with it the advantages of a non-discriminatory environment. No WTO Member is free to treat Chinese exporters any less favourably than the treatment it gives to other countries’ exporters. Often, the treatment is as good as the country affords to its own nationals.
The system provides important legal protections for exporters and,
As a result of China’s commitments made under its protocol of accession to the WTO, it is now much easier for Chinese companies to import into China foreign-origin components required in the manufacture of goods for export of for sale on the local market.
Slide 5
Antidumping is becoming more and more of a problem in international trade. It is a particularly serious problem here in China because many foreign countries treat China as a non-market economy. Exporters need to know how to protect themselves against harassment.
China accepted some very important obligations on respecting intellectual property rights when it joined the WTO. It is important for Chinese exporters and those producing for the domestic market to respect others’ intellectual property rights. At the same time, your own intellectual property rights are now legally protected under the WTO.
Slide 7
There are some very important opportunities for Chinese firms in negotiations going on at at least three different levels in 2003-2004. Where you are aware of access barriers to your exports, you should be in touch with Beijing to inform negotiators where you would like to see foreign measures liberalised. At the top of the opportunities list is the multilateral trade negotiation launched in Qatar two years ago. More than 170 countries are involved in this negotiation and there are a wide range of topics under discussion in addition to regular market access negotiations.
Just over two years ago, when China was negotiating its own accession to the WTO, foreign countries used the accession negotiation to gain increased access to the Chinese market. Today, China is in the WTO and China has the opportunity to demand that other countries seeking entry into the WTO should open their markets to goods and services from China.
Finally, China is now party to free trade agreement discussions with a number of economies. Here in Shenzhen, I imagine that you are very eager to take advantage of the new CEPA agreement with Hong Kong. China has also agreed to establish an FTA with the ASEAN countries and to examine whether an FTA with Australia might be a good idea. There are many opportunities in these actual or future negotiations.
2. Students model for the rest of the class with the same material. 3. Class discussions of the difficulties encounters and teacher’s comments. 4. Sight interpretation with the second part of the presentation
Slide 9
China’s participation in the WTO guarantees Chinese exporters access to markets for industrial products, for food and agricultural products and for services.
Many ways in which the access is guaranteed are the same for the three sectors, but there are also some important differences in approach.
Slide 11
For industrial products, WTO Members’ tariff rates are listed at their legally-bound maximum level. Actual , applied tariffs may be lower, but the country cannot charge duties higher than the rates bound in its schedule.
Most tariffs are ad valorem and based on the value of the imported good. Thanks to the WTO Customs Valuation Agreement, imports – with very rate exceptions – need to have their value set as the transaction cost.
In the past, countries used to require importers and manufacturers to mix certain amounts of domestically-sourced products with those imported. These local content requirements are now outlawed in the WTO.
Customs officials are bound by WTO rules not to charge fees for formalities that are disproportional to the costs of services provided.