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The Legal Research Of China-ASEAN Free Trade Area

Posted on:2007-08-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360182977512Subject:International Law
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China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) is one of the focuses of foreign regional economic cooperation of China currently. This paper elaborates the rules and contents of CAFTA under the background of international economic law, and puts forward some advices for it.The first part of the paper reviews the background of foundation of CAFTA, and introducing the FACEC (Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Co-operation between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the People's Republic of China) generally which is the milestone of CAFTA, and analyzing the legal factors of its foundation, namely it accords with the exception of WTO and summarizes the relationship of regional trade agreements and WTO regulations.The main contents of cargo trade agreements of CAFTA are introduced in the second part. It mainly involves tariff measures and in-tariff measures, the former is tariff reduce which is the most important and the latter include number limit, in-tariff wall, guarantee measures, etc. In the last summarizes the characteristics of it.The third part is about service trade agreements. At present there is no a specific and integrated service trade agreement, so in my paper I bring forward my conceiving about it on the base of its existing legal frame and correlative ordainments in WTO.The fourth part is about else aspects cooperation between China and ASEAN, such as investment liberalization, convenient measures to trade and investment and dispute settlement mechanism, etc. The cooperation and intercommunion between the two parts must be more abroad increasingly and the fields involved will also be multiplied constantly, so the rules should be perfected along with it. The dispute settlement mechanism agreement is the system assurance for the building of CAFTA.The last part analyzes several especial issues concretely according to the confronting risks and difficulties, and some advices is put forward to reduce the uncertainty to make sure the smooth development of CAFTA.
Keywords/Search Tags:China-ASEAN Free Trade Area, Regional Economic Integration, Regional Trade Agreements, Legal Issues
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