Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

6-2018

Abstract

This paper endeavours to conceptualize and provide an analytical framework for China’s response to U.S. trade policy. It analyses the following questions: what is the new U.S. trade approach? How might China respond to the United States’ trade approach? What are the trend and implications of China’s response to the U.S. trade approach? It argues, first, that the U.S. trade approach has not changed regarding most of the U.S.-style regulatory disciplines. However, it has changed in terms of the shift toward managed trade, unilateralism and trade enforcement. Second, China will likely adopt a three-track approach: consisting of retaliatory, inclusive and regulatory responses. Third, these responses exist on a political-legal spectrum that spans from a more political retaliatory response through to an inclusive one, or a more legalized approach (regulatory response). The inclusive response is likely to be given primacy by China over the other two responses, and China’s responses carry profound implications.

Keywords

Trade policy, United States, China, trade approach, regulatory response

Discipline

Asian Studies | International Trade Law

Research Areas

Public International Law, Regional and Trade Law

Publication

Columbia Journal of Asian Law

Volume

31

Issue

2

First Page

151

Last Page

198

ISSN

1094-8449

Identifier

10.7916/cjal.v31i2.3367

Publisher

Columbia University

Copyright Owner and License

Authors CC-BY

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.7916/cjal.v31i2.3367

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