Overview

This book provides readers with a unique opportunity to learn about one of the new regional trade agreements (RTAs), the China–Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA), that has been operational since December 2015 and is now at the forefront of the field. This new agreement reflects many of the modern and up-to-date approaches within the international economic legal order that must now exist within a very different environment than that of the late eighties and early nineties, when the World Trade Organization (WTO) was created. The book, therefore, explores many new features that were not present when the WTO or early RTAs were negotiated. It provides insights and lessons about new and important trade issues for the twenty-first century, such as the latest approaches to the regulation of investment, twenty-first century services and the emerging digital/knowledge economy. In addition, this book provides new understandings of the latest RTA approaches of China and Australia. The book’s contributors, all foremost experts on their subject matter within this field, explore the inclusion of many traditional trade and investment agreement features in the ChAFTA, showing their continuing relevance in modern contexts.

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Author:   Colin Picker ,  Heng Wang ,  Weihuan Zhou (Unversity of New South Wales, Australia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Weight:   0.708kg
ISBN:  

9781509915385

ISBN 10:   1509915389
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   14 December 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: An Introduction to ChAFTA 1. Australia, China and ChAFTA: Punching Above both Belt and Weight Colin B Picker 2. An Analytical Introduction to ChAFTA: Features and Challenges Heng Wang Part II: The Contexts within which ChAFTA exists 3. A Comparative Context: Ensuring Australian and Chinese Legal Systems Coexist to Facilitate Harmonious and Trustworthy Trade Nicholas Morris 4. ChAFTA’s External Impact on Related Mega-FTAs Chang-fa Lo 5. The China–Australia FTA and Australia’s FTAs with Other Asian Countries: Their Implications for Future SOE Regulation Takemasa Sekine Part III: Insights and Lessons for Trade in Services 6. Services Liberalisation in ChAFTA: Progress Assessment and the Way Forward Jingxia Shi 7. Culture-Oriented Mode 4 under ChAFTA: Policy Considerations Shin-Yi Peng, Han-Wei Liu and Ching-Fu Lin 8. Breakthrough or Standstill? China’s Liberalisation of Legal Services under ChAFTA Weihuan Zhou and Junfang Xi 9. Trade in Education Services under ChAFTA: What does it Mean for Australia? Eva Chye Part IV: Insights and Lessons for the Regulation of Investment 10. Substantive Provisions in ChAFTA’s Investment Chapter Vivienne Bath 11. Australia, China and the Coexistence of Successive International Investment Agreements Tania Voon and Elizabeth Sheargold 12. A Comparative Review of the Investor–State Arbitration Clause in ChAFTA from China’s Perspective: Moving Forwards or Sideways? Shu Zhang 13. Investor–State Dispute Settlement and the Australian Constitutional Framework Lisa Burton Crawford, Patrick Emerton and Emmanuel Laryea Part V: Insights and Lessons on IEL and the Knowledge Economy 14. E-Commerce in ChAFTA: New Wine in Old Wineskins? Henry Gao 15. Expanding the E-Commerce Chapter in ChAFTA: A Green Box, Orange Box and Red Box Approach Jie (Jeanne) Huang 16. The Ideas Boom: The Innovation Economy in the Post-ChAFTA Australia–China Relationship Ken Shao

Reviews

[T]his book fills the gap in the literature by addressing cutting-edge elements of the ChAFTA. The comparative analysis in the context of Asia-Pacific FTAs helps the readers to comprehend the complex and fast-growing development of regional integration. I therefore highly recommend the book, particularly to those who engage in trade law practice and negotiations. -- Pasha L Hsieh, Associate Professor of Law, Singapore Management University * Journal of International Economic Law *

Author Information

Colin B Picker, Heng Wang and Weihuan Zhou are all Members of UNSW Law’s China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Initiative.

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