Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword by Pascal Lamy
- Perspective of the Chairman of the WTO Committee on Government Procurement, Nicholas Niggli (Switzerland)
- Preface
- Disclaimer
- PART I The WTO regime on government procurement
- PART II Expanding the scope of the Agreement on Government Procurement: accession and coverage
- 2 Forging a more global procurement market: issues concerning accessions to the Agreement on Government Procurement
- 3 Accession to the Agreement on Government Procurement: the case of China
- 4 India's possible accession to the Agreement on Government Procurement: what are the pros and cons?
- 5 The benefits for developing countries of accession to the Agreement on Government Procurement: the case of Chinese Taipei
- 6 The coverage negotiations under the Agreement on Government Procurement: context, mandate, process and prospects
- 7 Canada's sub-central government entities and the Agreement on Government Procurement: past and present
- 8 The procurement of state trading enterprises under the WTO Agreements: a proposal for a way forward
- 9 Addressing purchasing arrangements between public sector entities: what can the WTO learn from the EU's experience?
- PART III Revision of the procedural rules and other transparency provisions of the Agreement on Government Procurement
- PART IV Developing countries in the WTO procurement regime
- PART V Economic and social development (horizontal policies) in government procurement
- PART VI Enforcement and remedies
- PART VII Multilateralism and regionalism
- PART VIII Challenges and new directions
- Index
- References
3 - Accession to the Agreement on Government Procurement: the case of China
from PART II - Expanding the scope of the Agreement on Government Procurement: accession and coverage
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword by Pascal Lamy
- Perspective of the Chairman of the WTO Committee on Government Procurement, Nicholas Niggli (Switzerland)
- Preface
- Disclaimer
- PART I The WTO regime on government procurement
- PART II Expanding the scope of the Agreement on Government Procurement: accession and coverage
- 2 Forging a more global procurement market: issues concerning accessions to the Agreement on Government Procurement
- 3 Accession to the Agreement on Government Procurement: the case of China
- 4 India's possible accession to the Agreement on Government Procurement: what are the pros and cons?
- 5 The benefits for developing countries of accession to the Agreement on Government Procurement: the case of Chinese Taipei
- 6 The coverage negotiations under the Agreement on Government Procurement: context, mandate, process and prospects
- 7 Canada's sub-central government entities and the Agreement on Government Procurement: past and present
- 8 The procurement of state trading enterprises under the WTO Agreements: a proposal for a way forward
- 9 Addressing purchasing arrangements between public sector entities: what can the WTO learn from the EU's experience?
- PART III Revision of the procedural rules and other transparency provisions of the Agreement on Government Procurement
- PART IV Developing countries in the WTO procurement regime
- PART V Economic and social development (horizontal policies) in government procurement
- PART VI Enforcement and remedies
- PART VII Multilateralism and regionalism
- PART VIII Challenges and new directions
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
China's accession to the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is of great interest and entails significant challenges to GPA Parties due to the size of the Chinese state sector and the complexity of her government procurement regime.
GPA Parties have been trying to persuade countries seeking to join the WTO, including China, to commit to joining the GPA upon WTO accession. However, China firmly rejected the proposition that GPA membership should be a precondition for China to join the WTO, and only undertook to ‘initiate negotiations for membership in the GPA by tabling an Appendix I offer as soon as possible’ upon WTO accession in 2001. This commitment was incorporated in China's Accession Protocol at the time of its WTO accession. After almost five years of inaction, China, under constant pressure from its major trade partners, made the first move towards fulfilling that commitment in April 2006: as an outcome of the ongoing Sino-US trade dialogue, China committed to table an offer of GPA coverage (the so-called ‘Appendix I offer’) by the end of 2007 which would signal the initiation of China's GPA accession negotiation. This commitment was also reinstated in the course of China's 2006 WTO Trade Policy Review.
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- The WTO Regime on Government ProcurementChallenge and Reform, pp. 92 - 116Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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