Ministry Of Commerce: I Hope To Join The Government Procurement Agreement At An Early Date.

"We hope that the countries concerned will recognize China's national conditions as a developing country, reduce the asking price, and create conditions for China's early accession to the GPA, so as to realize the mutual opening of the government procurement market.

On the seventeenth joint meeting of China Japan investment promotion institutions held in June 7th, Minister of Commerce Chen Deming once again expressed his expectation of China's accession to the GPA.

For the obstacles to entry into GPA, experts believe that the relevant countries have not yet recognized China's market economy status.

GPA is not joining.

GPA is called "second WTO" because of its high openness.

Joining GPA, which follows the principle of reciprocity and reciprocity, will increase opportunities and channels for China's enterprises, products and services to enter the international market, such as the largest government procurement market. The US purchase of American Products Act requires that the final products of government procurement must be made in the United States, but GPA member Fang Bu is limited.

If China becomes a member of GPA, it will no longer be bound by the purchase of us product act, and Chinese products will have the opportunity to participate in US government procurement.

It is learnt that joining the GPA will expand our foreign market by several hundred billion US dollars.

For Chen Deming's statement, Liu Xiahui, a researcher at the Institute of economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that China's entry into the GPA gate is not simply a question of negotiation. In fact, it is closely related to "the relevant countries have so far not recognized the market economy status of our country". "With 1, 1 of the non market economy, the label will naturally be blocked in the GPA application".

The government

The agreement on government procurement emphasizes three principles: first, the principle of national treatment and non discrimination, that is, parties shall not discriminate against foreign products or suppliers through the formulation, adoption or implementation of laws, rules, procedures and practices of government procurement; two, the principle of openness, that is, the laws, rules, procedures and practices of contracting parties concerned should be made public; three, the principle of preferential treatment for developing countries, that is, the parties concerned should provide special treatment to developing countries, especially the least developed countries, such as providing technical assistance to take care of their development, financial and trade needs.

The government procurement agreement was signed in Geneva in April 1979, and the parties reached the basic intention in December 1993.

At present, there are 27 members and 21 observers in the GPA, most of which are developed countries.