Agriculture and Food Security in China, What Effect WTO Accession and Regional Trade Arrangements?, What Effect WTO Accession and Regional Trade Arrangements?

Year

2008

Publisher

ANU Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-0-73153-817-1

Link

Last Update

09-Jan-2026

Keywords

Business ; Sociology

Description

The impact of China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) on its agricultural sector has been a major concern of the Chinese government and one of the hottest topics among policymakers and academics inside and outside China. In 1998, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) funded a multi-year research project (ADP/1998/128) to examine the impacts of China’s WTO accession on its agricultural sector. The project was a joint undertaking by researchers from Australia and China.

The project began before China’s accession to the WTO, but it was anticipated that the accession application would be successful and that...