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China and the WTO

This page gathers key information on China's participation in the WTO. China has been a member of WTO since 11 December 2001.

National site
Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China
(This site is selected by the Chinese delegation)

  

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News 

 

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Accession to the WTO 

  

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Goods schedules and tariff data 

  • Get tariff data — includes explanations of bound and applied rates, the HS system and related jargon
  • See the goods schedules gateway for explanations and background
  • China's goods schedules (zip format, 427KB)

  

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Services schedules and MFN exemptions

  • help on reading a services schedule
  • services database (opens new window)
    You can use this database to retrieve the services schedule for a Member, or to compare services commitments across Members. The database does not include data on current negotiations.
  • all commitments and exemptions on services. Provides the original official documents from China. Not consolidated (i.e. first documents may be amended/substituted by subsequent documents).

  

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Trade Policy Reviews of China

See the TPR gateway for explanations and background

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Dispute cases involving China

Place your mouse over a dispute number in the table below to see the title of the dispute. Click on the dispute number to go to a page giving detailed information for that dispute.

See the dispute settlement gateway for explanations and background.

  

  

 

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Notifications from China

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  • Agriculture (Document code G/AG/N/CHN/*)   > search
  • Antidumping (Document code G/ADP/N/* and CHN)   > search
  • Balance of payments (Document code WT/BOP/N/*)   > search
  • Customs valuation (Document code G/VAL/N/* and CHN)   > search
  • Government procurement (Document code GPA/* and keyword varies)   > search
  • Import licensing (Document code G/LIC/N/* and CHN)   > search
  • Information technology products (Document code varies)   > search
  • Intellectual Property Rights (see TRIPS below)
  • Regional trade Agreements (Document code WT/REG* and N)   > search
  • Rules of origin (Document code G/RO/N/*)   > search
  • Safeguards (Document code G/SG/N/* and CHN)   > search
  • Sanitary and phytosanitary measures (Document code G/SPS/N/CHN/*)   > search
  • Services (Document code S/C/N/*)   > search
  • State trading enterprises (Document code G/STR/N/* and CHN)   > search
  • Subsidies and countervailing measures (Document code G/SCM/N/* and CHN)   > search
  • Technical barriers to trade notifications under the TBT Agreement can be found under the TBT gateway
  • Textiles notifications can be found by Article under the textiles gateway
  • Trade and development (Document code WT/COMTD/N/*)   > search
  • Trade-related investment measures (Document code G/TRIMS/N/* and CHN)   > search
  • TRIPS notifications can be found by Article under the Members’ transparency toolkit

  

Acceptance of multilateral instruments

 

Membership of plurilateral agreements

 

Membership of RTAs & PTAs

 

Case studies 

 

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