TPP International Trade And Investment Rules And China’s Strategies

With the development of economic globalization, the regional economic integration presents new trends, emphasis on strengthening regional economic cooperation and trade cooperation in a larger context, the transcontinental and transoceanic regional cooperation organizations develop quickly. Because the Doha Round negotiations stalled and the APEC contributed less to the development process of Asia-Pacific economies integration. In this context, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) came into being. TPP has gotten a wide range of concern in the world since the United States joined in it and became a vitality regional trade agreement. TPP’s target is to build the next generation trade and investment rules. TPP may become dominant trade agreement in the 21st century and will further develop into a higher level of regional economic integration organization form-political and economic union. In the first part, introduce background and significance of writing, and then sort out the relevant research and write literature review, which help to generate the frame of this thesis. In the second part, concern development of regional economic integration as well as state customs union theory, theory of division of labor agreements and big market theory, then analysis affections. In the third part, start from the TPP generated background, then track each round of negotiations, research and analysis the related subjects of negotiations, in order to fully understand the development process and the main content of the TPP negotiations. Based on the content analysis of the TPP negotiations, compare the TPP with WTO rules from these perspective such as national treatment, trade in goods, cross-border investment, trade in services, intellectual property and government procurement. TPP is going to build a higher standard of international trade and investment rules. In the fifth section, analyze the practical difficulties faced by TPP during the development process and predict its development prospects. In the fifth section, analyze the impact on China’s foreign trade, industrial development, regional cooperation and China FTA construction and think China’s region development strategy; put forward the suggestions to deal with the TPP.