Empirical Research On China's Practice Of Disputes Settlement In WTO

It has been ten years since China's accession into WTO. During the first decade, China has been developing rapidly in foreign trade, and more and more disputes and conflicts occurred at the same time. After its entry into WTO, China has begun to resolve the disputes with other countries under the dispute settlement mechanism of WTO, and has gradually accumulated many practices in it. It was peaceful in the first five years, the translational period, and generally China played the third party role in disputes settlement. After the translational period, with the background of global financial crisis, our participation of dispute settlement has been increasing year by year. As a whole, China played less active and less effective in appeal activities compared with other members, which owes to China's lake of practice. Many developed countries such as United States and European Union have frequently challenged China in the policies, laws and regulations, which means the cases China had to respond increased significantly. But the results of disputes settlement are less satisfactory. In this paper, the author found out the factors of win and lose in the cases which China appealed and responded, on the basis of analyzing these dispute settlement cases. Then the author put forward some helpful advises, so that China will make much more progress in dispute settlement.