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AGAO
Accountability * Integrity * Reliability
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548
January 25, 2005
The Honorable Max Baucus
Ranking Minority Member
Committee on Finance
United States Senate
The Honorable Charles B. Rangel
Ranking Minority Member
Committee on Ways and Means
House of Representatives
The Honorable Sander M. Levin
Ranking Minority Member
Subcommittee on Trade
Committee on Ways and Means
House of Representatives
Subject: U.S.-China Trade: Summary of 2003 World Trade Organization
Transitional Review Mechanism for China
China's 2001 accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) raised expectations
with Congress and the private sector about the prospects for China to reform its
markets and allow greater access to foreign goods and services. As part of our long-
term body of work related to China's membership in the WTO, we reported in
October 2004 on how the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and the Departments of
Commerce, State, and Agriculture were positioned to monitor and enforce China's
compliance with its WTO commitments in 2003.1 In that report, we examined the
multilateral annual WTO review of China's progress, referred to as the Transitional
Review Mechanism (TRM). We found that the TRM has ongoing limitations in its
participation and its procedures. We made recommendations to improve related U.S.
government activities. In a subsequent request, you asked us to provide detailed
information about the TRM process in 2003 so that you could better gauge the level of
activity and the efficacy of the United States and other WTO members' efforts to
utilize it.
In response to your request, we compiled information about WTO members'
participation and about the particular implementation issues raised by the United
States and other WTO members' during the TRM, using WTO documents. We
'For more information, see GAO, U.S.-China Trade: Opportunities to Improve U.S. Government
Efforts to Ensure China's Compliance with World Trade Organization Commitments, GAO-05-53
(Washington, D.C.: Oct. 6, 2004).GAO-05-209R U.S.-China Trade
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