China's World Trade Organization (WTO) membership negotiations take place on 2 tracks -- bilateral & multilateral negotiations. The bilateral negotiations, including those between China & the U.S., are designed to obtain China's commitment to remove market access barriers & open China's domestic market to more foreign goods & services. The focus of the multilateral negotiations between China & 44 members is to ensure that China will conform its trade to the rules, practices, & obligations required by the WTO agreement. This report examines: the results of the Nov. 1999 bilateral Agreement on Market Access between China & the U.S., & the status of China's ongoing multilateral negotiations in the WTO.

The editors have succeeded in bringing together an excellent mix of leading scholars and practitioners. No book on the WTO has had this wide a scope before or covered the legal framework, economic and political issues, current and would-be countries and a outlook to the future like these three volumes do. 3000 pages, 80 chapters in 3 volumes cover a very interdiscplinary field that touches upon law, economics and politics.

This volume offers a history of the negotiations for a new Agreement on Agriculture up to the end of 2010, from the mandated negotiations under Article 20 of that Agreement to the negotiations launched by the 2001 Doha Declaration.