参加WTO香港会议的感受与启迪

2OO5年12月13日至18日，WTO在我国香港举办第六届部长级会议。会议通过的《香港部长宣盲》，在农业、非农业和发展等议题上取得新的进展；对取消农业出口补贴。发达成员对来自最不发达国家产品给予“双免”待遇问题取得重要突破。香港部长会议的成功。对维护WTO多边贸易体制的正常运转、保护发展中国家利益具有重要意义。香港特区政府对会议的成功做出了重要贡献，中国政府自始至终发挥了建设性作用。 对外经济贸易大学薛荣久教授以中国非政府组织代表身份参加了香港部长会议。身临其境．感受深刻。本刊全文刊登薛荣久教授撰写的《参加WTO香港会议的感受与启迪》一文。以飨读者。[编者按]     

WTO香港会议关注五大议题

<正>WTO第六次部长级会议今年年底将在中国香港举行。WTO总干事素帕猜4月24日在博鳌亚洲论坛表示,香港会议将关注农业、非农业市场准入、服务业、WTO规则及发展领域五项重要议题。素帕猜表示多哈回合进展缓慢,他提醒WTO成员,如果要在2006年完成此回合的谈判,香港会议将是一次十分重要的机会。     

香港日志--中国代表团在第六届WTO部长会议

2005年12月13日至18日，频繁举办国际会议的香港经历了一次不平凡的WTO部长会议。对于经历过坎昆部长会议的中国代表团来说，尽管不是第一次经历这样的不平凡，但香港的WTO部长会议，无论时间、地点、内容和结果，与前次都是那么的不同。     

香港日志——中国代表团在第六届WTO部长会议

2005年12月13日至18日,频繁举办国际会议的香港经历了一次不平凡的WTO部长会议.对于经历过坎昆部长会议的中国代表团来说,尽管不是第一次经历这样的不平凡,但香港的WTO部长会议,无论时间、地点、内容和结果,与前次都是那么的不同.……     

WTO第七届部长级会议召开前夕达成四项新共识

第七届部长级会议遵循之前拟定原则2009年11月30日至12月2日,WTO将在日内瓦举行第七届部长级会议。在9月份的专栏中,记者已经初步介绍了有关WTO第七届部长级会议的安排。比较重要的内容有：会议将在日内瓦国际会议中心举行,分为全会和工作会议两部分。     

沙特与汤加2005年底“入世”

2005年10月28日在世界贸易组织(WTO)总部举行的、由主要成员参加的谈判工作组会议通过了沙特阿拉伯加入世界贸易组织的最终文件,沙特工商大臣雅玛尼、国务大臣宰伊阿勒,以及52个国家的代表参加了这次会议。12月15日,正在香港举行的WTO第六次部长级会议正式批准汤加加入世贸组织     

WTO咨询台

□1.据悉,今年12月份将在中国香港举行WTO第六届部长级会议。能否介绍一下WTO部长级会议的基本知识和此次香港会议的一些背景情况?答:根据《马拉喀什建立世界贸易组织协定》第4条第1款的规定,WTO部长级会议(MinisterialConference)由所有成员的代表组成,是WTO的最高权力机构,至     

联合推动欧美农业政策向前迈进--中澳官学两界共议农业贸易政策与香港会议

农业一直以来都是WTO谈判的重点和焦点，在农业领域能否取得实质性进展，事关多哈回合的成败。适值WTO香港部长级会议即将举行之际，第三届中国和澳大利亚“农业贸易政策论坛”在中国北京举行。“WTO农业谈判进程和香港部长级会议”成为本次论坛的主旨，围绕着这一主题，来自澳大利亚等国的贸易官员和专家与中国同行进行了专家层面的专题讨论。     

WTO香港会议对中国农业发展的影响及对策研究

本文在对WTO成员农业补贴的现状、WTO香港会议有关农业补贴的内容分析的基础上,指出了WTO香港会议对中国农业的影响,创新性的提出了中国农业发展在新形势下的对策。     

WTO香港会议回顾与今后谈判的荆棘之路

本文回顾了WTO香港会议的进展及其意义,分析了香港会议在艰难谈判中取得积极进展的原因以及今后谈判的困难与障碍。     

Growth policies in developing countries

Long-term growth in most developing countries is driven by the adaptation of technology from developed countries. The question, however, of how to promote technology adaptation is a difficult one. The following article introduces a transaction cost perspective and applies it to the concrete and—against the background of the 4th Ministerial Conference of the WTO in November 2001—topical question: how do WTO rules impact on development in terms of technology adaptation? This issue is of utmost importance to the EU, which put forward the argument that the new Trade Round had to become a “Development Round”.     

电子商务对《服务贸易总协定》的冲击——兼论电子商务多边贸易规则的建立

目前电子商务已成为WTO重要议题。在WTO各相关领域中 ,电子商务对《服务贸易总协定》(GATS)的影响和冲击最大。文章分析了电子商务给GATS的分类、适用范围及GATS的一般义务和特定承诺带来的冲击 ,并提出了建立电子商务多边规则的框架设想和原则建议。     

WTO规则下的中美数字贸易立场研究

随着互联网的发展,数字贸易逐渐显示出其重要性,已经成为国际贸易监管中的关键一环,数字贸易问题也成为世贸组织第11次部长级会议讨论的主要问题之一。在数字贸易领域,中美两国的态度存在诸多区别,体现在两国对内对外政策的制定当中。美国的做法倾向于更多地关注数字贸易的"数字"性质,而中国的做法倾向于从传统的"贸易"角度来解决这个问题。     

Progress or Stagnation?

Progress in the negotiations in services trade is to be reviewed at the sixth WTO Ministerial Meeting in Hong Kong in December 2005, this date being crucial for successfully concluding the Doha Development Round. However, the way to a meaningful agreement on services will not be easy. The following article explains the challenges facing the negotiations and the reasons why progress in this field is so difficult to measure.

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*John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

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**Professor of International Economics, International University Bremen, Germany.     

港台建立更紧密经贸关系的战略构想

港台建立更紧密经贸关系不仅具有重要的战略意义,而且存在可靠的法理依据,不仅符合WTO规范,而且具有国际实践上的可行性与现实的可能性.港台建立更紧密经贸关系要遵循WTO基本规则、平等互利与超越WTO谈判内容的原则,其内容不是固定的,主要是赋予港台贸易和投资活动一定的优惠待遇和便利条件,以造就港台经贸交流的特殊环境和发展条件.     

Challenges Facing the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Conference

The continuing deep divisions between developed and developing countries have given rise to concerns that the Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference to be held on 13-18 December in Hong Kong will—like its predecessor, the Fifth Ministerial in Cancún—end in failure. The contributions to this Forum explore the key negotiating issues.

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* Lead Economists in the Development Research Group of the World Bank, Washington DC, USA. The authors are grateful for the collaboration of numerous colleagues, especially Dominique van der Mensbrugghe and Tom Hertel, and for research funding from the UK’s Department for International Development. The views expressed are the authors’ alone. More-detailed analysis is contained in the authors’ article “Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda”, in: The World Economy, Vol. 28, No. 9, September 2005, pp. 1301-27, and in a World Bank book edited by them and published in November 2005 by Palgrave Macmillan called “Agricultural Trade and the Doha Development Agenda”. ** This paper represents the opinions of the author. It is not meant to represent the position or opinions of the Secretariat or the WTO Members. Any errors are the fault of the author. *** See www.evenett.com for other writings on international trade-related matters. I thank Brigitte Cuendet, Bernard Hoekman, Carlos Primo Braga and Susan Prowse for sharing their insights on “aid for trade” matters in various conversations during 2005. All errors in this paper are my own. The “tough love” in the title refers to the fact that, although I am very sympathetic to the broad thrust of the aid for trade proposals, in recent months I have come to believe that not every aspect of these proposals is as well developed as possible. **** Views expressed in this article are those of the author and cannot be attributed to the OECD Secretariat or OECD Member countries.     

The impact of China's WTO accession on Hong Kong textiles,clothing and its supporting industries

China's accession to the WTO and the ‘Agreement on Textiles and Clothing’ (ATC) which gradually ban the use of quota, will have profound impacts on the textile industry in China. This article attempts to examine such impacts on all textile firms of Hong Kong origin. It briefly examines the impact of WTO on the textile industries in general, the participation of Hong Kong based firms in China's textiles industry, and the competitors from foreign countries. It examines in detail the practice of obtaining Hong Kong quota for textile products that are made in the Mainland by Hong Kong firms. The article argues that there are positive and negative effects of China–s WTO accession for all textile firms of Hong Kong origin. It concludes that the shifting of the targeted market to high-end, high-value-added is the only way of survival for the textile firms of Hong Kong.     

Economic Implications of WTO Negotiations on Non‐agricultural Market Access

The economic implications of current WTO negotiations are likely to be far reaching. The World Bank and UNCTAD estimate annual global gains in agriculture and non‐agricultural products (including fish) of about $70−150 billion each under various scenarios and technical assumptions. Liberalising trade in services could be even more important, especially if agreement were reached to facilitate the temporary movement of labour (Mode 4 under the General Agreement on Trade in Services, GATS). Some qualifications, however, are in order. First, gains are likely to be spread unevenly across countries and across sectors; and, second, short‐term adjustment costs might precede long‐term gains. Much depends on how ambitious liberalisation is and on policies to facilitate adjustment. This paper examines the Doha mandate in non‐agricultural market access (NAMA) and the current state of the WTO negotiations, in particular some key proposals being considered at the December 2005 Ministerial Meeting in Hong Kong. We analyse various scenarios and their implications for trade, welfare, output, employment, revenues and preferences, as well as the distributional effects across countries and sectors. We note possible adjustment problems related to balance of payments and structural adjustment, as well as revenue and preference losses. These suggest the need for ‘aid for trade’ to help developing countries realise gains possible from WTO negotiations.     

FDI and Industrial Restructuring in Post‐WTO Greater PRD: Implications on Regional Growth in China

This paper aims at studying the investment flows in the Greater Pearl River Delta region (Hong Kong‐PRD) in China and its impacts on industrial restructuring at the firm‐level using a business survey with the Hong Kong‐PRD entity acted as a core‐periphery economy. The critical effects of gravity distance on transaction costs in the determination of investment flows are examined statistically by a gravity model by incorporating a hypothetical infrastructural construction project. Survey findings show that the evolution of the cross‐border operations at the main core has directed the outward FDI flows and the subsequent industrial structural adjustments of the core‐periphery economy. This paper has presented a typical illustrative case for further studies of investment flows and its impacts upon industrial adjustments and performance in other regions in China especially after the WTO accession. Its implication on regional economic growth is also discussed.     

CEPA对两地制造业发展的影响

CEPA是中国入世以来签署的第一份自由贸易法案，它在某些领域的给惠程度甚至超出了WTO的有关承诺。CEPA的签署，标志着中国香港与大陆经贸一体化进程的深化，不仅有利于香港经济的复苏和转型，也为两地经贸合作带来了机遇，CEPA将是两地互动发展的驱动剂。