Foreign Trade of China K.C. Fung University of California, Santa Cruz Hitomi Iizaka University of California, Santa Cruz Sarah Tong University of Hong Kong June 2002 Paper prepared for an international conference on “China’s Economy in the 21st Century”, to be held on June 24-25, 2002, Hong Kong. We would like to thank Alan Siu and Richard Wong for their encouragement. 1. Introduction On December 11, 2001, China officially joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) and became its 143rd
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Since the start of reform and opening three decades ago, China's foreign trade has been growing rapidly, even faster than its GDP. Nevertheless, the macro environment nowadays is undergoing influential change, and it is questionable whether China would be able to maintain its current speed of growth. By performing a PESTEL analysis, this essay proposes that China could no longer maintain its current mode of foreign trade with heavy emphasis on labour intensive manufacturing. New areas of growth must
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barriers to trade? International trade barriers are restrictions put in place by the government to prevent the inflow of international goods and services to the country. These restrictions are placed by the government officials with the intent of protecting their economy from the international competition; they include tariff and nontariff barriers. Some of the argument for trade restrictions includes the following; It serves as a national defense from competitions to foreign companies, it
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Trade expresses the buying and selling of goods and services for money. It can be made up of transferal or exchange of goods and services for money. Industrialists create the goods, then moves on to the wholesaler, followed by a retailer and finally to the final buyer (Akrani). Trade is necessary for the contentment of human wants. Trade is driven not only for the sake of earning revenue; it also delivers service to the consumers. Trade is an important social activity since the general public needs
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