<heading format="display" id="h1" implicit="yes" level="1">Abstract</heading> The use of state trading to manage imports and exports has been a long-standing feature of China's agricultural trade regime. While the use of state trading was modified by China's accession to the WTO, state trading still dominates for some commodities, even though there have been...

This paper reviews recent changes in the geographic pattern of regional trading agreements (RTAs), focusing on examples from the Asia-Pacific area. The general pattern is one of new bilateral agreements combined with a trend towards continentalism. The new trend towards bilateralism can be...