Study On The Asean-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement

In recent years, due to the impasse of the multilateral negotiation system underthe world trade organization (WTO), the development of the regional economicintegration is accelerated. Under this background, it is emphasized that the strategy offree trade regions should be implemented quickly in Chinese18th NPC, this is one ofthe realistic and important way that could comprehensively improve the level of anopen economy and it also conform to the situation of the rapid development of theglobal free trade. There is the introduction of the Australia-New Zealand-ASEANFree Trade Agreement (Hereinafter referred to as the AANZFTA) in this paper.Comparatively, there are more comprehensive content, higher degree of liberalizationand more convenient operation in this agreement, and which has great significance forChina.Nearly thirty thousand words, this paper is divided into four parts.At first, the overall situation of the AANZFTA is introduced in this part,including the progress and motivation of the agreement signing, the basiccharacteristics of the agreement, etc.Secondly, based on the clause of the AANZFTA, the agreement is fully analyzed,including Trade in Goods, Trade in Services, Investment, Consultations and DisputeSettlement, Electronic Commerce, Economic Co-operation, Intellectual Property,Competition, etc.The content of the third part is the comparison between the AANZFTA and theCAFTA. The comparison includes several parts such as: structure, content, degree ofliberalization, operation, transparency, etc. The successful experience of theAANZFTA and the shortages of the CAFTA have been summarized in thiscomparison.There is the enlightenment for China which come from the AANZFTA in the fourth part. And the enlightenment includes that the strategy of free trade regionsshould be implemented quickly, the free trade agreement should be consolidated andperfected, and the research of the free trade agreement should be strengthened, etc.