State-owned Enterprises

Du, Ming

Abstract

Despite three decades of extensive state reform and privatization, State-owned enterprises (SOEs) remain key players in the global economy. The expansion of SOEs’ global footprint has caused widespread concerns about their implications for fair competition, national security, reciprocity, transparency, corruption, the function of the free market at home, and the future of the rule-based liberal international economic order. Concurrently, there is a growing perception that current international economic rules are neither conceptually coherent nor practically effective for tackling SOEs. This chapter maps out the new SOE rules emerging in free trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties, such as the (Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), and the EU-China Comprehensive Investment Agreement (CAI), and more importantly, to assess critically to what extent the new SOE rules are able to address the Chinese SOE problem.

Citation

Du, M. (2025). State-owned Enterprises. In J. Chaisse, & C. Herrmann (Eds.), The International Law of Economic Integration (963-976). Oxford University Press

• Publication Date: Mar 6, 2025
• Deposit Date: Aug 22, 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 963-976
• Book Title: The International Law of Economic Integration
• ISBN: 9780192871626
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2763529
• Publisher URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-international-law-of-economic-integration-9780192871626
• Contract Date: Aug 22, 2024