Bridging the Pacific: Toward Free Trade and Investment between China and the United States

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Bridging the Pacific: Toward Free Trade and Investment between China and the United States
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October 2014
ISBN paper 978-0-88132-691-8
440 pp.
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Bridging the Pacific: Toward Free Trade and Investment between China and the United States

by C. Fred Bergsten ,
Gary Clyde Hufbauer and
Sean Miner
assisted by Tyler Moran
Description

The terrain of the world trading system is shifting as countries in Asia, Europe, and North America negotiate new trade agreements. However, none of these talks include both China and the United States, the two biggest economies in the world. In this pathbreaking study, C. Fred Bergsten, Gary Clyde Hufbauer, and Sean Miner argue that China and the United States would benefit substantially from a bilateral free trade and investment accord. In the process, they contend, each country would also achieve progress in addressing its internal economic challenges, such as the low saving rate in the United States.

Achieving greater trade and investment integration could be accomplished with one comprehensive effort or through step-by-step negotiations over key issues. The authors call on the United States to seek liberalization of China's services sector as vital to securing an agreement, and they explain that such contentious matters as cyberespionage and currency manipulation be handled through parallel negotiations rather than in the agreement itself. This is an important study of the benefits and difficulties of a complex matter that could yield dividends to the two economies and help stabilize the security and well-being of the rest of the world.

Data disclosure: The data underlying this analysis are available here [xlsx].

Contents
Selected chapters and sections are provided for preview only.

Preface [pdf]

I The Context

1. Toward Free Trade and Investment between China and the
United States [pdf]

2. The Effects of a China—US Free Trade and Investment Agreement
Peter A. Petri, Michael G. Plummer, and Fan Zhai

3. Adjustment Challenges for US Workers
Robert Z. Lawrence

II Potential Self-Balancing Stand-Alone Agreements

4. Merchandise Tariffs

5. Government Procurement

6. Agriculture

III Potential Components of a Comprehensive Agreement

7. Service Barriers [pdf]

Appendix 7A Quantitative Estimates of Barriers to Services Trade and Investment

8. Financial Services

9. Intellectual Property Rights

10. Labor Policy

11. Environmental Policy

12. Export Controls
Asha Sundaram

IV The Investment Cluster

13. Foreign Direct Investment

14. State-Owned Enterprises

15. Competition Policy

V Parallel Issues

16. Cyberespionage

17. Trade and Currency

VI. Wrapping Up

18. Dispute Settlement

19. Conclusions and Recommendations

Index [pdf]