JORGE RODRIGUES SIMAO

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Negotiation processes in the WTO

 The substance and evolution of the agenda of the WTO depend on to a large extent on the decision-making processes. Several of these decision-making procedures are themselves the product of negotiation. As we discovered in the previous texts, protocols on the negotiation of such rules are few and often result in the reliance on de facto, controversial processes of rule formation. But especially after the agenda is set, formal and informal negotiation processes are crucial in determining what goes into the final package. Without such protocols of negotiation in place, the raison d’être for the WTO - to provide a negotiating forum that facilitates multilateral trade liberalisation - would collapse. Of course, any negotiation is driven by the preferences of states, their domestic constituencies, and the individual negotiator's party to the deal. But the fact that countries engage in tariff reductions within the WTO matters: the WTO establishes certain rules of the game, which would not automatically come into existence and in whose absence different outcomes would ensue. Below, I examine the principal features of the negotiation process, and also provide examples of how negotiation minutiae can sometimes skew outcomes in favour of the already powerful in the WTO.

PERSPECTIVAS - A China no Ano do Galo - MacauHoje - 25.01.2017

“Chinese economy is faced with downward pressure as many other countries are now. However, China's 1.3 billion population has offered a giant market with various buffer zones for the world's economy and enormous consumption demands for its recovery. China imports goods worth $3.2 million from other countries in every 1 minute; and one in every 10 products exported around the world is bought by China. Just imagine, if every Chinese person buys products or service worth $100 from your country, $130 billion are generated in bilateral trade. ”

CIPG Digital Media Center, January 17, 2016

O Ano Novo Chinês começará, tendo como regente o Galo, a 28 de Janeiro de 2017 e terminará a 15 de Fevereiro de 2018, marcando o final do ano do Macaco. O Galo é o signo da madrugada e do despertar. O triunfo e o êxito só aparecerão após muito trabalho e paciência. Assim, neste novo Ano Novo Chinês que se aproxima, a economia chinesa adaptou-se a uma nova normalidade em 2016, caracterizada pelo excesso de preocupações relativas ao crescimento do PIB, reforma estrutural dirigida à oferta, política monetária e ao Renmimbi (RMB), entre muitas outros factos e situações.

PERSPECTIVAS - A China empresarial - HojeMacau - 16.01.2016

“President Xi Jinping emphasized that innovation; economic restructuring and consumption should be among the top priorities of China’s next stage of growth (the 13^th Five-Year Plan for 2016–2020). The “Internet Plus” action plan seeks to drive economic growth by integration of internet technologies with manufacturing and business.”

China's Mobile Economy: Opportunities in the Largest and Fastest Information Consumption Boom

 Winston Ma, Xiaodong Lee and Dominic Barton

 O crescimento da economia chinesa parecia imparável. O antigo modelo de crescimento, que depende fortemente do planeamento estadual e de um imenso investimento em infra-estruturas e propriedades, prospera com um uso maciço de crédito fornecido pelo sistema financeiro dominado pelo Estado, que se está a esgotar a todo o vapor.

Taking care of ourselves doesn’t give us the right to be mean.

Just because we’re telling the truth, we don’t need to tear people apart.

Sometimes when we start to own our power after years-maybe a lifetime of being timid and weak, we become overly aggressive trying to get our point across.

We can be honest with other people without being mean.