Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1194:
China and the G-21: A New North-South Divide in the WTO After Cancún?
Rolf J. Langhammer
Abstract: The paper analyses the interests of China as a member of
the G-21, which contributed to the failure of the WTO Ministerial
Conference in Cancún/Mexico in September 2003. It concludes that the median
member of G-21 is more inward-looking and less reform-minded than China. A
failure of the Doha Round due to a North-South divide between the US/EU on
the one hand and the G-21 on the other hand would cause more harm to the
latter than to the former group and would also impact negatively upon
China, which has fewer alternatives to a multilateral round than both most
of the other G-21 members and the two big players. Thus, China would be
well-advised to remain unconstrained in its trade policies and does not
become member of any group.
Keywords: Multilateral trade policies, trade liberalisation, world trading order; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: F0,; F1; (follow links to similar papers)
31 pages, January 2004
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