区域贸易协定“竞争性自由化”辨析

在WTO多哈回合持续停滞的现状下,RTAs(区域贸易协定)竞争性自由化态势持续升温。但由于制度成本的存在、主导国家力量的局限以及各国利益的殊异,各个RTA之间的融合相当困难,从而竞争性自由化无法最终实现全球贸易自由化,而且还存在南北国家利益不对称的明显弊端。为避免国际贸易格局的过度破碎化,各国一方面应推动RTA原产地规则的功能性整合,并促进各个RTA之间以及WTO与RTAs之间的经贸政策对话,另一方面仍应努力推动WTO多边自由化进程,促进多边化与区域化协调发展。

Analysis on Competitive Liberalization of Regional Trade Agreements

With the Doha Round stagnating all through these years,the trend of competitive liberalization represented by bilateral FTAs continues to strengthen.However,due to the institutional costs,the limitation of the dominant nations' power and the extreme diversity of many nations' interests,competitive liberalization is not able to ultimately achieve global trade liberalization and bring about the obvious shortcoming of asymmetry of interests between developed and developing nations.To avoid the excessive fragme...