State Regulation in China in the Light of Its WTO Membership

Abstract

When China entered the World Trade Organization (WTO) in December 2001, it also accepted some trade commitments in the area of state regulation, which have influence on the liberal free trade. The object of the paper is to highlight the changes that occurred in the selected areas of state regulation in the period 2001-2015, and to find out if China fulfilled its WTO commitments in the selected areas of state regulation. The aim of the qualitative research carried out in the area of state trading, price controls and state enterprises was to show the fact that although China liberalised its market in compliance with its trade commitments in the WTO, some strategic sectors of economy have remained under the influence of the Chinese state all the time.

Foreign Trade as a Tool to Strengthen the EU's Competitiveness Against China (A Case of the Service Sector)

“…The EU and China regularly impose various unilateral anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures on each other. In December 2016, the bilateral relations between the EU and China deteriorated as a result of the EU's refusal to grant "market economy status" to China (Fojtíková, 2017). Member countries of the EU are worried about losing the ability to eff ectively prevent the "fl ood" of cheap goods that granting the status of a market economy to China would most likely cause.…”