Monitoring China's WTO Compliance

U.S. Government Reports, Hearings, and Other Resources on China’s WTO Compliance

United States Trade Representative's Annual Report to Congress on China's WTO Compliance

2004 report

2003 report

2002 report

United States Trade Representative's National Trade Estimate Report

2004 China section

2003 China section

2002 NTE Report Index (China link missing)

United States Trade Representative’s Special 301 Report on Intellectual Property Protection

2004 China section

2003 China section

General Accounting Office China WTO Reports are available through its website (these documents require Adobe Acrobat Viewer available for free from Adobe)

U.S.-China Trade: Observations on Ensuring China's Compliance with World Trade Organization Commitments, GAO-05-295T, February 4, 2005

U.S.-China Trade: Summary of 2003 World Trade Organization Transitional Review Mechanism for China , GAO-05-209R, January 25, 2005

U.S.-China Trade: Opportunities to Improve U.S. Government Efforts to Ensure China's Compliance with World Trade Organization Commitments , GAO-05-53, October 6, 2004

World Trade Organization: U.S. Companies' Views on China's Implementation of Its Commitments , GAO-04-508, March 24, 2004

World Trade Organization: Ensuring China's Compliance Requires a Sustained and Multifaceted Approach , GAO-04-172T, October 30, 2003

GAO's Electronic Database of China's World Trade Organization Commitments , GAO-03-797R, June 13, 2003

This links to the short .pdf report on the database but also provides a link to the database itself.  One can download the database and use it in Microsoft Access or can access the online version.  Searching for individual commitments and then seeing the original language in China's accession documents is a useful function but even more interesting is the categorization of the commitments according to trade area and subject matter.  A sample search of the database for all China's transparency commitments determines that there are transparency commitments in 77 different paragraphs of China's WTO Accession Protocol and the Working Party Report.

World Trade Organization: First-Year U.S. Efforts to Monitor China's Compliance , GAO-03-461, March 31, 2003

World Trade Organization: Analysis of China's Commitments to Other Members, GAO-03-4, October 3, 2002

World Trade Organization: Selected U.S. Company Views about China's Membership, GAO-02-1056, September 23, 2002

World Trade Organization: Observations on China's Rule of Law Reforms, GAO-02-812T, June 6, 2002

Congressional-Executive Commission on China

Hearings

Is China Playing By the Rules? Free Trade, Fair Trade, and WTO Compliance (September 24, 2003)

WTO: Will China Keep its Promises? Can it? (June 6, 2002)

 

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

The Commission has held hearings relating to China's WTO compliance and U.S.-China trade issues.

 

Non-Government WTO Compliance Resources

 

U.S.-China Business Council

The USCBC has made available a number of documents addressing China WTO compliance issues

 

American Chamber of Commerce in China^*

2004 White Paper

2003 White Paper

2002 White Paper

 

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

China's WTO Implementation: A Three-Year Assessment (September 2004)

China's WTO Record: A Two-Year Assessment (September 2003)

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* The two primary AmChams in China, in Beijing and Shanghai, have collaborated on a White Paper on China's Compliance with its WTO accession commitments since 2003. In 2002, the Beijing AmCham compiled the first White Paper on China's compliance with its WTO accession committments.