RTA Investment Rules New Developments

With the development of economic globalization and regional economic integration accelerated; development RTA, more perfect, RTA investment has become an important part of international trade. Since the early1990s, regional trade agreements (RTA) have become increasingly common. As of January10,2013, approximately546notifications (goods and services were counted and added) regional trade agreements received a GATT/WTO, of which there are354cases effectively. RTA that RTAs (Regional Trade Agreements) refers to the inter-regional preferential trade agreements signed so that intra-regional trade is higher than the degree of trade liberalization outside the region. Significance lies in the promotion of free trade agreements in the region, but the premise is to not increase the barriers outside the region. Meanwhile RTA must be carried out under the provisions of the WTO, WTO legal basis involving RTA include:GATT Article24and its understanding, GATT’s" enabling clause" and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) Article5. RTA from the momentum of the development of contemporary point of view, the more strongly, from cover point to constantly enrich the content, breakthrough from the point of view of members and expanded the scope of "area " from the point of view FTA mainstream type of reproduction mode, the point of view from a development mode " inter-regional cooperation "and" sub-regional cooperation " to flourish.Country in the WTO, RTA greatly expedited participates. With China-ASEAN FTA signed by the Mainland and Hong Kong and Macao Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) smooth progress, as well as the rhythm of some countries to accelerate the establishment of a bilateral FTA, entered a new phase of regional economic cooperation. Participation in economic cooperation has become an important part of China’s opening up policy, which is conducive to China’s participation in the competition for international economic cooperation in a larger, broader and higher level; help improve the overall competitiveness of China’s participation in regional economic cooperation, conducive to mutual benefit and common development of China and the world. Therefore, research and development characteristics and trends of contemporary RTA, for our active participation in the multilateral trading system and international and regional economic cooperation is of great significance.Chinese Participation in regional trade agreements. The current regional trade agreements China is still a low level of participation in regional trade arrangements framework for cooperation and preferential trade arrangements based. One is the framework for cooperation. Many other areas such as China and Brazil, China and South Africa, China and Argentina, China and Australia, China and Russia have signed a framework cooperation agreement, up to hundreds of specific agreements, but mostly middle principled terms, operability is not strong. The second is preferential trade arrangements. China’s current preferential trade arrangements to join the "Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement." There has signed10free trade agreements, is negotiating a free trade agreement with five. Understanding China’s participation in RTA agreed conditions, help to analyze the situation of China’s participation in regional trade and investment.TPP negotiations and signed with TTIP, setting off a new round of upsurge of trade rules; purpose of agreements signed, content, features, standards targeted and purposeful. This article, from the RTA investment rules, TPP and TTIP development, the relevant FTA and elaborate on the impact of China’s influence and respond to four aspects:The first chapter is an overview of RTA investment rules, bedding articles. The first is economic integration with the RTA contact, and from the origin and development of the characteristics of an overview of the development of investment rules. The second chapter is important and difficult TTIP TPP and the development of the article. First, the agreement signed in the background discussion, analysis of political and economic factors behind the conclusion of the agreement; Second, the content of the agreement were discussed with the background to clarify investment rules which conclude standards, terms of analysis, characteristics; Third, the United States TPP and TTIP involved analysis. The third chapter is related to TPP and TTIP impact on the FTA, the focus of the article. TPP and the related impact TTIP FTA system, is one of the trends of development. APEC, WTO impact on the economies of ASEAN, to elaborate. The fourth chapter is the TPP and TTIP focus on Chinese influence and respond to, the article. First, based on China’s position in international trade, to play a role in the relevant free trade zone in the Asia-Pacific region, the World Trade Organization, ASEAN economies trade; secondly, from China to the TPP and TTIP own situation and strategy analysis; last according to the corresponding impact proposed countermeasures.Thrust of the article is to study and TTIP investment rules TPP, TPP and TTIP around in the background, the terms and the impact of innovation:First, novelty. At present researches on the TPP and TTIP, mainly concentrated in the United States under the auspices of the rules; rather focus on TPP paper background with TTIP content terms, the impact on the relevant FTA. Secondly, pragmatic. Development of regional trade agreement and trade around the world are inextricably related. According to the current development status agreement on free trade zone as well as the Member States and non-member countries, the impact or possible impact, discussion and analysis. This article forms part of the structure of progressive research methods using induction, deduction, comparison. This paper focuses on the development of regional trade agreements with TPP TTIP, the interpretation of a free trade zone development and influence; situation of China’s participation in regional trade agreements, TPP and TTIP leading trade trends in the area of trade in China and across the trans-Pacific Atlantic may face what the situation.