Research On The Rules Of Origin Under China's Free Trade Agreement

Nowadays regional economic integration has greater and greater impact on the exchange of world economy and trade,especially the free trade area as the most important manifestation of regional economic integration.More and more countries set about seeking trade partnership.One of the important features of Free Trade Agreement is that it carries out zero-tariff or lower tariff for all member parties in-house,but it keeps independent tariff system for non-member parties.Under this condition,it is very significant to study the Rules of Origin in case that non-member party takes the member state which owns the lower tariff as a springboard to put their products into another member state.As the production is becoming increasingly international,more and more product and process of products involve in different countries and regions,so it becomes obviously difficult to identify the nationality of goods.Under this condition,the Rules of Origin becomes rather complicated.Under the background of the free trade area,the Rules of Origin is increasingly getting a key tool for all countries to protect the internal market of area and attract foreign investments in free trade are.Facing the rising tendency of regional economic integration,China is taking an active part in it and also doing with the negotiation in regard to establishing Free Trade Agreement with other countries.China has involved in 13 Free Trade Agreements until 2016.The Rules of Origin has already become a necessary section of the Free Trade Agreement signed by states.And in terms of different free trade agreements the regulations of the Rules of Origin presents some differences in details.Because the Rules of Origin directly concerns the tariff and non-tariff treatment of the products from all contracting parties,it becomes an important component of the Free Trade Agreement negotiation and also in this thesis.This thesis centers the practice of the Rules of Origin under the Free Trade Agreement established by our state.The first section of this thesis combs the present situation of the Free Trade Agreement concluded by our country,the main content and the changes of the Rules of Origin under China's Free Trade Agreement.The second section mainly analyzes the differences and similarities of the relating practices with regard to WTO as well as the Free Trade Agreements that European and America has concluded.It mainly talks about the Rules of Origin of WTO and also under the EU and NAFTA's Free Trade Agreement.Simultaneously,this section comparatively analyzes the Rules of Origin under the Free Trade Agreement among China,WTO and the other main economic blocs in terms of the nature of it,the differentiation of the regulations for some special regions as well as the strict managements.The third section analyzes the problems of China's treaty practice in the Rules of Origin.On the basis of this research,mainly taking the practical experience about the Rules of Origin from European and American nations for reference,this section puts forward some advice from three aspects-optimizing the identification criterion of the Rules of Origin,refining tiny content rules and improving the identification criterion of the seafood origin so that it could be part of power to cope with the future involvement in negotiation about the Rules of Origin.