Book contents
- The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership
- The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Becomes the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for TPP
- 2 Trade Agreements and the U.S. Congress – the Case of the TPP
- 3 The TPP, a Horizontal Overview
- 4 Market Access for Trade in Goods Negotiations in the TPP
- 5 Trade Provisions as Legos? How Chapter 2 of the TPP Was Influenced by WTO Negotiations and Prior US Trade Deals
- 6 The TPP, Agricultural Trade and Food Security
- 7 Rules of Origin and Origin Procedures
- 8 Trade in Textiles and Apparel Goods
- 9 How Far Beyond the TFA? Trade Facilitation in the WTO and the TPP
- 10 Treatment of Trade Remedies under the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Chapter 6
- 11 The SPS Chapter under the TPP Agreement and its Implications
- 12 Technical Barriers to Trade: Improving the Day-To-Day Functioning
- 13 Addressing the Right to Regulate in the CPTPP Investment Chapter: Identifying New Treaty Practice
- 14 Protecting Investment under NAFTA, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Comprehensive and Progressive TPP
- 15 The Trans-Pacific Partnership as a Development of the Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement: Services Liberalisation and Investment Protection
- 16 The TPP Agreement’s Substance and Impact on International Trade, NAFTA/USMCA, and Other FTAs: Services Overview: Background, Strategy and Solutions
- 17 Cross-Border Trade in Services (Chapter 10) and Temporary Entry for Business Persons (Chapter 12)
- 18 Financial Services in the TPP
- 19 Telecommunications Chapter in the TPP
- 20 Understanding the TPP Agreement E-Commerce Chapter
- 21 Government Procurement in the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: A Global Beachhead for Market Access and Good Governance
- 22 The TPP’s Competition Policy Chapter: Towards Convergence
- 23 Rules for State-Owned Enterprises in Chapter 17 of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Balancing Market-Oriented Discipline and Policy Flexibility for States
- 24 Non-Commercial Assistance Rules in the TPP: A Comparative Analysis with the SCM Agreement
- 25 IP in the TPP: How Far Beyond the Existing FTAs Does It Go?
- 26 Strengthening Labor Rights in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: A Lost Opportunity?
- 27 TPP Trade and Environment Chapter
- 28 Horizontal Regulatory Coherence Aspects of the TPP
- 29 Transparency and Anticorruption
- 30 State-to-State Dispute Settlement under TPP Chapter 28 and NAFTA Chapter 20
- 31 Initial Provisions, Administrative Provisions, Exceptions and Final Provisions (TPP Chapters 1, 27, 29 and 30)
- Index
24 - Non-Commercial Assistance Rules in the TPP: A Comparative Analysis with the SCM Agreement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2021
- The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership
- The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Becomes the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for TPP
- 2 Trade Agreements and the U.S. Congress – the Case of the TPP
- 3 The TPP, a Horizontal Overview
- 4 Market Access for Trade in Goods Negotiations in the TPP
- 5 Trade Provisions as Legos? How Chapter 2 of the TPP Was Influenced by WTO Negotiations and Prior US Trade Deals
- 6 The TPP, Agricultural Trade and Food Security
- 7 Rules of Origin and Origin Procedures
- 8 Trade in Textiles and Apparel Goods
- 9 How Far Beyond the TFA? Trade Facilitation in the WTO and the TPP
- 10 Treatment of Trade Remedies under the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Chapter 6
- 11 The SPS Chapter under the TPP Agreement and its Implications
- 12 Technical Barriers to Trade: Improving the Day-To-Day Functioning
- 13 Addressing the Right to Regulate in the CPTPP Investment Chapter: Identifying New Treaty Practice
- 14 Protecting Investment under NAFTA, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Comprehensive and Progressive TPP
- 15 The Trans-Pacific Partnership as a Development of the Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement: Services Liberalisation and Investment Protection
- 16 The TPP Agreement’s Substance and Impact on International Trade, NAFTA/USMCA, and Other FTAs: Services Overview: Background, Strategy and Solutions
- 17 Cross-Border Trade in Services (Chapter 10) and Temporary Entry for Business Persons (Chapter 12)
- 18 Financial Services in the TPP
- 19 Telecommunications Chapter in the TPP
- 20 Understanding the TPP Agreement E-Commerce Chapter
- 21 Government Procurement in the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: A Global Beachhead for Market Access and Good Governance
- 22 The TPP’s Competition Policy Chapter: Towards Convergence
- 23 Rules for State-Owned Enterprises in Chapter 17 of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Balancing Market-Oriented Discipline and Policy Flexibility for States
- 24 Non-Commercial Assistance Rules in the TPP: A Comparative Analysis with the SCM Agreement
- 25 IP in the TPP: How Far Beyond the Existing FTAs Does It Go?
- 26 Strengthening Labor Rights in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: A Lost Opportunity?
- 27 TPP Trade and Environment Chapter
- 28 Horizontal Regulatory Coherence Aspects of the TPP
- 29 Transparency and Anticorruption
- 30 State-to-State Dispute Settlement under TPP Chapter 28 and NAFTA Chapter 20
- 31 Initial Provisions, Administrative Provisions, Exceptions and Final Provisions (TPP Chapters 1, 27, 29 and 30)
- Index
Summary
One of the concerns surrounding state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the international trade context is that they may acquire a competitive edge through “hidden subsidies or other advantages that would not be available to private firms.” The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report exemplifies the advantages that SOEs can enjoy. These are (a) outright subsidization, such as the creation of favorable tax regimes or conferring of in-kind benefits; (b) concessionary financing and guarantees, e.g. granting of credit at below-market interest rates; (c) other preferential treatment by governments, including exemptions from antitrust enforcement and building permit regulations; (d) monopolies and the advantages of incumbency; (e) captive equity, namely, the advantages that SOEs may enjoy thanks to the inability of their owners to transfer ownership rights; and (f) exemption from bankruptcy rules and information advantages. Through such means, SOEs may gain a competitive advantage merely by virtue of their state-owned status.
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- The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific PartnershipAnalysis and Commentary, pp. 542 - 558Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021