A Study of Taiwan’s Importing Food Trade : The Cases of Taiwan-Australia and Taiwan-Canada.

• Main Authors: Wen-Chieh Wang, 王文杰
• Other Authors: 譚偉恩
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5qbk33

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 國際政治研究所 === 107 === This essayaims to explore an important international cooperation phenomenon thathas not been fully explained. It ask under what conditionsthe countries (or separate customs territories)belonging tothe global trade regime will try to establish a very specific bilateral cooperation in trade with selected country?The cooperation phenomenon as such named “the second cooperation” within this essayis related tothe nature of international trade; however, it has rarely been detected by people in the field of international political economy. Through cases studies and comparisons based on specific WTO members(Taiwan and its trading partners), this essay discovers that there aretwo types of the relationship between multilateral trade regime and bilateral trade cooperation.The first one is“making it better”,which benefits the exporting countryto obtain more favorable trade treatments.The second one is“reducing the loss”, which prevents the exporting country from losing much of its trade interests.No matter which one mentioned above, both of them are based on the rational choice from the exporting country’s perspective. Accordingly, the exporting country could be easier to address potential disputes in which the importing country violates its obligation required by the multilateral trade regime.