On The International Coordination Of The Competition Rules In The WTO System

With the integration of world economy,the flowing of goods,technology and service transnationally increased rapidly. Under such conditions,the products' R&D,producing and selling can be conducted in different countries. Moreover,with many trade barriers being cutting off,more and more non-just competition activities are slipping into trade field,so the relationship between trade rules and competition rules become closer and closer. In the new world economic surroundings,the competition rules,which aim at regulating the domestic market,can't fit in with the needs of the realities. The conflicts on the legislation,executing of the competition rules will be more and more,hi order to avoid or eliminate the law conflicts,the international society has been trying to coordinate the competition rules with all kinds of ways. Comparatively,the bilateral and regional treaties are mostly special treaties which rarely associate with trade rules,while multilateral conventions are usually mixed with trade rules. In this article,on the basis of analyzing the characters,contents and other aspects of trade rules and competition rules;comparing the three coordination patterns,the author draws the conclusion:In order to meet the new needs of world economy,the coordination of competition rules must associate with trade rules. We should play the complementary advantages between the trade rules and competition rules,cut off or avoid the conflicts between them. Therefore,the coordination of competition rules should commit in the multilateral trade system. Moreover,it can be said that to realize the international coordination of competition rules in WTO system is the ultimate home to return to.