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BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has been granted membership of the World Trade Organisation, following 15 years of often intense negotiations, although its automobile industry is to retain a significant level of tariff protection.

For industrial goods the average bound tariff level will fall to 8.9 per cent with a range from 0 to 47 per cent, with the highest rates applied to photographic film and automobiles and related products.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
POTENTIALLY significant export and investment opportunities for British and other EU chemical companies in one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing markets have been opened up by an agreement revealed today (Wednesday) on the terms for China to join the World Trade Organisation.…

Keith Nuthall
FURTHER details have emerged about the concessions in the textile trade that have been agreed by China to secure accession to the World Trade Organisation. According to an EU briefing paper, the right for foreign private firms to import silk directly from China has been confirmed.…

Keith Nuthall
CHINA was due today (Monday) to be granted membership of the World Trade Organisation, following 15 years of often intense negotiations, although its automobile industry is to retain a significant level of tariff protection.

After implementing all the promises it has made in the bilateral deals which paved the way for WTO membership, China’s average bound tariff level for industrial goods will drop to 8.9 per cent, with a range from 0 to 47 per cent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA is to abolish its laws requiring international oil companies to channel their crude and processed oil through state importers. The promise has been accepted as part of Beijing’s price for membership of the World Trade Organisation which was approved by the WTO’s China accession working party last month (September).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A later briefing paper issued by the European Union also confirmed that the accession deal involved China conceding the right for foreign private firms to import silk directly from China. In the past, this has been subject to a state run export monopoly.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL mining companies are to find it easier to work in China, following the approval of its membership of the World Trade Organisation, a decision that was achieved by China making a wide range of concessions that will liberalise its commercial laws.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH and other developed country exporters will be able to take advantage of lower tariffs and abolished restrictive import quotas in the vast markets of China in future, because of the long awaited decision to admit the planet’s fifth largest trading nation to the World Trade Organisation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOREIGN investors will be blocked from controlling Internet, third generation mobile and other telecommunications joint ventures in China under the final deal struck over its accession to the World Trade Organisation, a briefing paper from officials in Geneva has said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOREIGN investors will be blocked from controlling Internet, third generation mobile and other telecommunications joint ventures in China under the final deal struck over its accession to the World Trade Organisation, a briefing paper from officials in Geneva has said.…