TO TEST TEH LABOUR CLAUSE OF CPTPP AND CHINA'S COUNTERMEASURES

Abstract

Developed countries continue to implement international labour standards in FTAs, resulting in a rapid increase in the number of agreements covering labour provisions in the past 20 years. The United States was the first to make specific provisions on labour issues in NAALC, the supplementary agreement to NAFTA, forming the first generation of high-standard FTA models. CPTPP makes specific provisions on the contents of labour clauses in a single chapter, which can be regarded as a model of the second-generation high-standard FTA. By comparing the labour provisions of CPTPP and NAALC, this paper finds out that the labour provisions of CPTPP are more stringent than those of NAALC, and tries to explore countermeasures for China's joining the CPTPP.