Coquettish Rebirth

Of course, Jia Hongjian didn't need Ye Jing's help, he was not a coy person.After making a phone call with Mr. Ye, the one-armed boss, Jia Hongjian continued to look at the WTO documents seriously.If you don’t see it, you will be shocked when you see it. There have been 10 rounds of negotiations between China and the United States so far.It can be said that with these ten rounds of negotiations, the iceberg between China and the United States has been thawed, and the real talks can begin.

In the previous ten rounds of negotiations, it can be said that it was simply a story of fighting against US imperialism-since 85, China was already preparing to reopen the customs.That is to restore the status of the contracting party of the GATT, and to enter the predecessor of the WTO, the GATT.This matter needs to be reported to Gatt, but also negotiated with other countries.Originally, this matter was expected to be discussed in China for a few years, and it was expected to be restored in the early and mid-90s.As a result, who knows that something happened 90 years ago. The US imperialists wanted to peacefully evolve China, but it failed. In the end, the US simply politicized a series of incidents and dragged people to sanction China. The result was the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The negotiations were suddenly frozen by the ice of politicization and complexity.

You must know that in 1987, Gerrard, the Swiss, who was in charge of China’s application-related team in the GATT Committee, thought that his position as team leader would be great for four or five years. Others joked that he might have to He wouldn't believe it even after ten years!After all, at that time, the relationship between China and the United States was called ironclad. From the outside world, China was simply a non-staff member of NATO, even if NATO was not called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.Then China might be able to enter the camp of the United States as soon as it applies!In the end, who knows that he has been working all the way for more than ten years, and now he is still the leader of the China working group after the WTO!

And in the same ten years, the head of the Chinese negotiating team has changed back and forth 4 times. Fifth place!One can imagine how long this negotiation took!Even the head of the negotiating team of the European Union or the European Community has changed four times!Originally, at the end of 4, before the GAT GATT was about to transform into the WTO, if China resumed its status as a contracting party to the GAT, it would automatically enter the WTO.The result was politicized obstruction by a group of people headed by the United States.He insisted on not agreeing.So after Gatt's transformation, China will restart WTO negotiations as a new member.This restoration of status is not the same as rejoining that, and it can even be compared—the mainland side replaced Daiwan and entered the United Nations, which directly became a permanent member of the United Nations.This is recovery identity!But what if the mainland rejoins.Is it possible to have the status of a permanent member all at once?Isn't that just an ordinary country with only one ordinary ticket.There is no most crucial veto right!

At the same time, after 95, it would be too troublesome to re-negotiate with the United States to join.The Americans rely on themselves to be the world leader.Those are all kinds of strong and comprehensive demands, and they don't let go at all!But it is impossible for China to follow the requirements of the United States completely. For example, the United States initially required China to implement compulsory purchase obligations based on the most advantageous products of the United States. What does this obligation mean?For example, the United States requires China to import 1000 million tons of wheat every year. If this is a compulsory purchase obligation, then China has to spend money every year regardless of whether it needs to import so much a year!Of course China will not agree to this kind of thing!Why do you have to buy your American wheat?Then why don't you force us to buy our Chinese textiles in the United States?If you tmd are forced to buy our Chinese textiles, how many female textile workers across the country will be laid off?As for Shanghai, 60 people will be laid off a year?As for the destruction of more than 1000 million spindles?your sister!You just cover your pockets and don't buy our things, so you want us to buy your things, and you are not allowed to buy them. Is there such a business deal?

So, on the one hand, the focus of the Chinese negotiations is on textiles, and on the other hand, how to stop the invasion of American agricultural products-according to the documents compiled by China now, the asking price is basically the average annual import of wheat in 95-97, that is, 730 million tons.As for the 730 million tons, it does not have to be purchased from the United States, and it does not mean that so much must be purchased. The 730 million tons is just a basic quota. How much to buy each year depends on China’s own situation. You can float the import quantity by yourself!

The United States is definitely not happy with what China said, so the United States made demands in other aspects, such as the time for various strong American products to enter the Chinese market-generally speaking, when entering a new WTO country, the country will Promise to reduce tariffs on certain products within how many years.The specific reduction is all discussed among each other, and there is no hard and fast rule.Of course, the Americans thought that it would be best to have zero tariffs on the first day and open everything up, and then American products could sweep the Chinese market when they came in, wipe out all Chinese local brands, and then rule this market.Of course, it is impossible for China to agree to such a thing, so it must be negotiated, and it is necessary to talk about how much to achieve in 0 years, 3 years, and 5 years.We must give our domestic industries a buffer period and an opportunity for transformation.Otherwise, it would open up all of a sudden. Wouldn't this turn our country into a dumping market and a source of raw materials for the United States? Isn't this an economic colony?

These are just negotiations related to trade in goods, and there are also negotiations related to trade in services.The negotiation on trade in services does not refer to clothing trade, but service-related trade.What is service trade?This is not to say that the U.S. can export waiters to China to serve dishes, let alone that China can send waiters to the U.S. to serve dishes without restriction, but rather to say that various relatively high-end services—consulting and survey services, computer and Information services, advertising services, financial services, royalties and royalties services, and even communication services!

In short, for example, American banks go to mainland China to open branches, which can absorb deposits and provide various wealth management services. These are all part of trade in services, and various joint ventures and investments are all trade in services agreements. Some of them, and there are even things like operating Internet services, value-added telecommunications services, cable TV services, even basic telecommunications services, express delivery services, etc., are all discussed.The United States is so strong, I definitely hope to go to China to get 51% of various shares at least.Such as value-added telecommunications services, online operations, financial management, and investment, the United States has ideas in this regard.But it is impossible for China to say that the United States will agree to any price. If this is the case, it will not take so long to negotiate, and it may be possible to negotiate without using it for a year!

What China means is that consulting and survey services can be entered, and sole proprietorships can be entered, but for computer and information services, this requires a joint venture, and sole proprietorship is also fine, but it will take a period of time to buffer, and then financial services can enter. In China, While allowing U.S. banks and financial institutions to enter the mainland to operate related services, but the permission is allowed, how to allow it, when it can come, what form it will be after it comes, whether it is a sole proprietorship or a joint venture, what about equity shares, and what rules need to be followed Mainland-specific rules—for example, it is the most obvious special case unique to the world in later generations of China. No matter what kind of project the network service is, if you want to develop it in mainland China, you must open a server in mainland China!It is not allowed to set up a main server in the United States and then China can access it!

Therefore, on the one hand, China wants to gain its own dominance, at least a dominance of its own market opening, and it can decide when to open and when not to open, while the United States is like a cake that buys and sells by force. , he just wants to cut it across the board, and then sell it at a sky-high price, do you dare not buy it?The brothers behind him will surround you!And China is tantamount to being coerced by the United States, which is selling that shit, to spend time with the other party in a reasonable and reasonable manner, try to negotiate the price as much as possible, and buy it at a price that it thinks is acceptable. This kind of negotiation is extremely difficult. Ordinary people can understand it when they think about it!

On the other hand, the United States and even Europe are quite disgusting. For example, Chinese textiles are relatively good and cheap.Moreover, the technical content in this aspect is really not high. In order to protect their own clothing and textile industries, the United States and Europe proposed to add another 4 years to the current 4-year protection period—that is, developed countries are developing countries. About 4 years after the country joined the WTO, it began to cancel the textile quota restrictions on developing countries. Originally, if China had entered the WTO in 2001, by 2005, Chinese textiles and clothing should have entered the European and American markets with zero tariffs. People's price is that there must be quota restrictions until 0, such as giving them 09 years to protect their own companies.And in these 8 years, many enterprises in China can only eat the domestic market, but the productivity has been developing, the market has not changed, and the domestic demand is not strong, how many domestic clothing enterprises will die!How many people will be laid off because of factory closures?Their layoffs will further narrow the market and weaken the consumption power of the domestic market, which may cause other products to be unsalable. Why should the Americans harm us?So this has to be done with the Americans, let them open up in accordance with the usual rules honestly and obediently, the difficulty in this is really great!

Anyway, after reading the information here, Jia Hongjian was really convinced - if he was asked to do the whole thing, he would probably be pissed off!Ten years, he has been so talkative every day, he has never been chasing a girl for such a long time!These thousands of agreements need to be grinded one by one and discussed one by one. When it comes to the end, Jia Hongjian will almost lose his hair after talking on his own feet-this is too nerve-wracking, okay? (To be continued..)