This is an essential and timely analysis of one of the defining questions in global economics and trade, as Mark Groombridge and Claude Barfield examine the stalled push for China's entry into the World Trade Organization, weighing managed trade against a rules-based approach, proposing reforms to Chinese courts and administrative systems, and offering a bold blueprint for how the WTO, US-China relations, and the world trading system should handle China and other nonmarket economies.


The authors propose guidelines for how the World Trade Organization should address the accession not only of China but of other nonmarket economies as well.