Contents
•Exercise for TextA
•TextB:Principles of the Trading System
•Exercise
•Test Yourself
•TextB:Principles of the Trading System
•tradewith discrimination 无歧视贸易
•Freertrade: gradually, through negotiation 通过谈判逐步加大贸易自由化
•Predictability: through binding and transparency可预见性:通过绑定和透明度
•Promoting fair competition促进公平竞争
•Encouraging development and economic reform鼓励发展和经济改革
难句分析:
•The agreement government procurement ( a “plurilateral” agreement because it issigned by only a few WTO member) extends competition rules to purchases bythousands of government entities in many countries. •政府采购协定为复边协定,因为它仅由少数世贸组织成员签署。它使得竞争规则延伸到许多国家中成千上万个政府实体的采购行为。•Procurement:获得;采购。例如:commercialprocurement商业采购。《政府采购协定》(英文缩写GPA)是世界贸易组织的复边协定之一。它由两部分构成,第一部分包括序言和24个条款,条款涵盖几个方面的内容:适用范围、非歧视义务、防止限制公平竞争的规则、最大可能竞争的采购方式、防止歧视的保障制定和其他;第二部分包括签署方开放政策采购市场清单、发布政府采购信息的刊物清单等附件。

