China Free Trade Agreement Text Study

Free trade areas have been rapidly developed in the process of economic integration with itsflexibility, convenience and depth of cooperation. Establishing free trade areas is a nice attemptespecially in the condition that multilateral trade negotiations getting increasingly difficult. Asadvantages of free trade areas getting prominent, more and more countries are paying closeattention to constructions of free trade area; many of them have put these constructions as part oftheir national strategy of development. Free trade areas development in China started late, theexpression of "implementing free trade strategy" did not present until the17thCentral PartyCongress. Promotion of the free trade strategy is a comprehensive, complex project. Free tradeagreements, as the legal foundation of free trade areas, are decisive in the overall level of theconstruction of free trade areas, therefore, improving free trade agreements plays an important rolein the process of the project.In light with legal analysis, comparative analysis and political science thinking, the followingproblems are discussed in the paper: the standardized usage of the word “FTA”, challengesemerged in the process in China’s FTA development, improvements of the FTA text. Also, thereare some suggestions concerning how to perfect future legal foundation of carrying forward theconstruction of free trade areas.This paper mainly consisted of four parts. The first part mainly introduces definitions of the freetrade area, development history free trade areas and probes into the standard usage of twoFTAs.The second targets free trade agreements, including text models, context structures andconclusions of the agreements. In the third part, the write tried to analyze problems emerged inChina’s free trade agreements from the perspective of the agreements we have already signed.While in the last part, some suggestions are provided to copy with the aforementioned problems.