ReportoftheWorkingPartyontheAccessionofChina-WorldTrade.doc

World Trade Organization WT/MIN(01)/3 10 November 2001 (01-5314) MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE Fourth Session Doha, 9-13 November 2001 REPORT OF THE WORKING PARTY ON THE ACCESSION OF CHINA TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION 1 1. Documentation Provided 1 2. Introductory Statements 1 II. ECONOMIC POLICIES 3 1. Non-Discrimination (including national treatment) 3 2. Monetary and Fiscal Policy 5 3. Foreign Exchange and Payments 5 4. Balance-of-Payments Measures 7 5. Investment Regime 8 6. State-Owned and State-Invested Enterprises 9 7. Pricing Policies 10 8. Competition Policy 12 III. FRAMEWORK FOR MAKING AND ENFORCING POLICIES 13 1. Structure and Powers of the Government 13 2. Authority of Sub-National Governments 13 3. Uniform Administration of the Trade Regime 14 4. Judicial Review 15 IV. POLICIES AFFECTING TRADE IN GOODS 15 A. TRADING RIGHTS 15 1. General 15 2. Designated Trading 17 B. IMPORT REGULATION 18 1. Ordinary Customs Duties 18 2. Other Duties and Charges 19 3. Rules of Origin 19 4. Fees and Charges for Services Rendered 20 5. Application of Internal Taxes to Imports 20 6. Tariff Exemptions 20 7. Tariff Rate Quotas 21 8. Quantitative Import Restrictions, including Prohibitions and Quotas 23 9. Import Licensing 27 10. Customs Valuation 28 11. Other Customs Formalities 29 12. Preshipment Inspection 29 13. Anti-Dumping, Countervailing Duties 29 14. Safeguards 32 C. EXPORT REGULATIONS 32 1. Customs Tariffs, Fees and Charges for Services Rendered, Application of Internal Taxes to Exports 32 2. Export Licensing and Export Restrictions 32 3. Export Subsidies 33 D. INTERNAL POLICIES AFFECTING FOREIGN TRADE IN GOODS 34 1. Taxes and Charges Levied on Imports and Exports 34 2. Industrial Policy, including Subsidies 34 3. Technical Barriers to Trade 35 4. Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures 40 5. Trade-Related Investment Measures 40 6. State Trading Entities 41 7. Special Economic Areas 43 8. Transit 44 9. Agricultural Policies 44 10. Trade in Civil Aircraft 46 1