Study On The Legal Problem Between APEC And Sino-US Economic Trades

APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) was founded in 1989, it has exerted more and more impacts on the Asia- Pacific area, even on the world. The United States and china are the two major influential countries in the Asia- Pacific area. How the Sino-US relations develop is crucial to the peace and development of the Asia-Pacific area. Meanwhile, the development and change of the Asia-Pacific affairs also affect Sino-US relations all the time. Because the United States and China are the two major actors in APEC, it is valuable to study how APEC takes effects on Sino-US relations.The first chapter mainly studies the evolution of APEC and its institutional characteristics. APEC has set trade and investment liberalization, facilitation and economic and technological cooperation namely three pillars as its cooperative contents and programmed concrete plans. APEC approach represents one of new models of the regional economic cooperation. It has such following features: adhering to open regionalism, acknowledging actors' diversity, emphasizing flexibility, gradualness and openness, abiding by mutual respect, equality, mutual benefit, consensus and voluntarism; and adopting the combination of individual and collective actions.The second chapter studies separately the APEC policy of the United States and China. APEC is the first regional cooperation organization that China joined, so it plays significant role in China's achieving its economic and diplomatic strategy. The United States takes APEC as a tool to realizing its Asia-Pacific strategy, makes use of APEC in realizing its economic interest in the Asia-Pacific area and impedes European Union and Japan.The third and fourth chapters study some matters on APEC and Sino-US economic and trade relations. After the cold war ended, Sino-US economic and trade relations have developed rapidly. However, there were some problem include some legal matters in Sino-US economic and trade relations. APEC has some certain impacts on Sino-US economic and trade relations. APEC was an important forum for the two countries to debate about most-favored nation clause; the trade and investment liberalization of APEC relaxed the difference on market access between the two countries.