美国自由贸易协定中的劳工规则研究国际法学专业毕业论文.docxVIP

1 1 Abstract Labor Standards issue has been internationally controversial. Since it failed to get the specific labor standards into the WTO system, the United States turned the way to Free Trade Agreement(FTA) for improvement. After the 2002 Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), the Bush government signed a series of FTAs to obtain the biggest trade opportunities for American farmers, workers, families and consumers, all of which have included the labor rules. When the TPA expired in 2007, the Democrats and Republicans negotiated and signed new trade policy agreement, which is known as the Bipartisan Agreement on Trade Policy (BATP). This new agreement makes amendments to the labor rules and asks the following FTAs between America and other countries to put them inside. The American Strategy on labor rules is essential to future‘s multilateral trade negotiation and has deep influences on the developing countries, so this paper would like to discuss labor issues of American FTAs , on the basis of a lot of materials. Through the analysis of the labor rules from both the theoretical and practical perspective, this paper tries to explore a way of improvement for developing countries, especially for China. Part I talks about the international foundation, policy foundation and the legal foundation of the labor rules in American FTAs. Part II is the evolution analysis. This part first discusses the FTAs signed during the 2002 TPA period, and then focuses on the later FTAs under the new trade policy, namely the U.S.-Panama FTA, the U.S.-Colombia FTA and the U.S.-South Korea FTA. Part III mainly examines the differences of labor rules between the American the European Union, the DR-CAFTA and the South American Common Market (MERCOSU). Part IV involves the influences of American labor rules and China‘s measures. Knowing the significances of American labor rules to trade rules as well as trade relations, this part gives suggestions for China on how to face the labor issues in the f