China and Trade and Investment Liberalization

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry S. Gao
Keyword(s):  
Investment Liberalization ◽  
Trade And Investment

Trade and investment liberalization

2019 ◽  
pp. 114-139
Author(s):  
Ronald Labonté ◽  
Arne Ruckert
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Investment Liberalization ◽  
Disease Risks ◽  
Health Complications ◽  
Global Health Equity ◽  
Trade And Investment ◽  
Actual Health

One of the major drivers of contemporary global market integration is trade and investment liberalization. Disease risks and health opportunities have long travelled the same routes of trade and commerce. Today’s binding and complex trade rules introduce new health complications. Using a number of recent trade agreements as exemplars, this chapter reviews the basic premises of liberalization, its claimed benefits, its purported or actual health risks, and how different provisions in trade and investment treaties (which unlike most global governance rules carry economic enforcement measures) are constraining important public health policy flexibilities in countries that are party to such agreements. From initial opposition to trade liberalization in general, progressive global health movements now focus more on how such rules could be written or revised in order to protect governments’ regulatory policy space, and to promote greater global health equity.

scholarly journals Domestic Value Added in Exports: Theory and Firm Evidence from China

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 (6) ◽  
pp. 1402-1436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiau Looi Kee ◽  
Heiwai Tang
Keyword(s):  
Firm Heterogeneity ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
Aggregation Bias ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Investment Liberalization ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Transaction Level ◽  
Firm Evidence ◽  
Trade And Investment

China has defied the declining trend in domestic content in exports in many countries. This paper studies China's rising domestic content in exports using firm- and customs transaction-level data. The approach embraces firm heterogeneity and hence reduces aggregation bias. The study finds that the substitution of domestic for imported materials by individual processing exporters caused China's domestic content in exports to increase from 65 to 70 percent in the period 2000–2007. Such substitution was induced by the country's trade and investment liberalization, which deepened its engagement in global value chains and led to a greater variety of domestic materials becoming available at lower prices. (JEL F13, F14, L14, O19, O24, P31, P33)

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