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CHINA AND THE GATT
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1 At the request of the Dutch Embassy qua Presidency, representatives of the EEC Embassies were briefed on 22 January by the International Relations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade about the recent visit of the Director-General of the GATT, Mr Dunkel (see Peking telno 77). The briefing was given by the Deputy Director of the Department, Mr Wang Tiance, who was supported by a phalanx of officials from the Number Two Division, who are responsible for the GATT question. The substance of his briefing is
set out below :
Mr Dunkel was accompanied by Mr Rossler, the Legal Affairs Counsellor of the GATT. Besides meetings with Zheng Tuobin (Minister of MOFERT), Wu Xieqian (MFA) and Premier Zhao Ziyang, they had meetings with the State Planning Commission, the State Economic Commission and the General Administration of Customs; they also visited factories, townships and marketplaces. Dunkel briefed the Chinese on the current situation in the GATT and the attitude of the contracting parties to China's resumption of membership, including their doubts in this regard, and their anxiety as to whether the current Chinese economic system was consistent with the GATT which was based on market mechanisms. Dunkel had therefore wishedto acquaint himself with the current situation in China's economic and trade policies. The Chinese, for their part, explained to him their "principled position" on resumption of membership and briefed him on China's economy and economic reforms. MOFERT had explained trade policies, and the other departments and Ministries had covered other areas. They had given a general picture of China's foreign trade and the reform of its structure, China's current aims and policies in its economic restructuring, its main tasks and guidelines for the 7th Five Year Plan, and the functions of tariffs, pricing and licensing within the Chinese system. They had also emphasised that
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