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The Impact of WTO Membership on the Automobile Industry in China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2001

Eric Harwit
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Many areas of China's economy stand to see change from WTO accession, from agriculture to insurance and banking to telecommunications. Among the sectors affected, the automobile industry, as an old-line heavy industry, seems one of the most open to a global challenge. Since its reorganization in the post-Mao Zedong reform era, China's auto industry has been nurtured in a protectionist environment. Joint venture companies have satisfied domestic passenger car vehicle needs, but price and quality problems have left the industry open to some challenge in a free market post-WTO world.

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Research Article
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The China Quarterly , Volume 167 , September 2001 , pp. 655 - 670
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© The China Quarterly, 2001

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Footnotes

The author thanks the University of California at Davis's Institute of Transportation Studies for funding support during research in summer 2000.