RESPECT e-books

Rebooting Multilateral Trade Cooperation: Perspectives from China and Europe

Rebooting Multilateral Trade Cooperation: Perspectives from China and Europe | Edited by B. Hoekman, X. Tu and D. Wang | voxEU.org | July 2021

Joint leadership by China and the EU to establish a balanced work programme spanning old and new issues of interest to all WTO members is necessary to safeguard the rules-based trade order. This book, a product of a Horizon 2020 research project (RESPECT), brings together essays written by teams of European and Chinese trade policy experts, who explore possible paths to revitalise the WTO.

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E-Book launch, Friends of Multilateralism Group, July 2021

Chapters

Introduction
B. Hoekman, X. Tu, and D. Wang
Chapter: 1 Reviving the negotiation function of the WTO: Why the onus falls on the three major powers
X. Tu and R. Wolfe
Chapter 2: Transparency and Local Subsidies in China and the United States
S. J. Evenett and Q. Kong
Chapter 3: China, the European Union, and the WTO Dispute Settlement Crisis
S. Liao and P. C. Mavroidis
Chapter 4: Special and differential treatment and developing country status: Can the two be separated?
P. Low
Chapter 5: National security and other non-trade objectives under WTO law
F. Cui, C. Hoeffler, and S. C. Hofmann
Chapter 6: Is it Possible to Promote an Agricultural Agenda in the WTO?
X. Lu and A. Matthews
Chapter 7: About Knowledge and Rulemaking: Reforming WTO Rules on Subsidies
S. Li and L. Rubini
Chapter 8: A Core Proposal for Reforming the WTO’s Subsidy Rules
J. Liu
Chapter 9: What kinds of rules are needed to support digital trade?
M. F. Ferracane and M. Li
Chapter 10: Updating the General Agreement on Trade in Services
B. Hoekman and J. Shi
Chapter 11: The EU–China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: A Model for Investment Coverage in the World Trade Organization?
J. Kurtz and B. Gong
Chapter 12: State-Owned Enterprises and International Competition: Towards Plurilateral Agreement
B. Hoekman and A. Sapir
Chapter 13: Climate Change, Trade Policy, and the WTO
J. Zhang and Z. Xie

Europe’s Trade Strategy for the Age of Geoeconomic Globalisation

A new eBook by Christian Bluth, ‘Europe’s Trade Strategy for the Age of Geoeconomic Globalisation’, forecasts the political and non-political megatrends that will shape the world for the next two decades and maps out a comprehensive strategy for EU trade policymaking to address and manage these shifting challenges of the future.

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