The Application Of WTO Market Access Principles Of Foreign Investment To China

There are six years for our country enters into the WTO. Recently, our country expands the scale of open to the world gradually and accelerates the process of reform. We work hard for our promise when we gave before enter the WTO. We do our best for the global economic integration. After enter the WTO, our country gradually loosened restricts on market access of foreign investment and modified some laws and regulations, in order to extend the scope of market access and reduce the limitations. Our country must be controlled by multilateral investment regulations after we became the WTO member. But the market access regulations of foreign investment in our country still have some conflict to the WTO multilateral international investment agreements. It expresses in national treatment principle, general elimination of quantitative restrictions principle and transparency principle. In order to work out the market access regulations which accord to market economy under the WTO framework, the paper emphasizes on searching the conflicts on market access regulations between our country and WTO framework. On the basis of the prerequisite which our country needs and can, we should make reform on market opening-up and loosen the limitations of market access. Through these changes, the economy of our country will be developed better in the future.Chapter 1 to 4 search the conflicts on market access regulations between our country and WTO framework through three aspects, which are national treatment principle, general elimination of quantitative restrictions principle and transparency principle. This part also raises the influence of these conflicts. Chapter 5 shows the particular situation of these conflicts in banking. Chapter 6 summarizes the five chapters above and gives the trend of market access regulations reform of our country in the future. In chapter 2 to 4, the analysis is on the basis of two WTO multinational investment agreements. They are Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs) and General Agreement on Trade in Service (GATS). Economics principle is used to analysis the influence of those conflicts.Through this paper, we can know these things well, which are the conflicts on market access regulations of foreign investment between our country and WTO, the performance of these conflicts and how can we change this situation to reduce these conflicts. Then, our country not only can enjoy the rights which WTO gives us, but also not be harmed by the foreign investment.