Large Non-market Economies’ Accession to the Multilateral Trading System

As noted in the previous chapter, the GATT-minus rules for the NME members formed during Poland’s accession were relaxed for Romania and Hungary, and were replaced by GATT/WTO-plus rules when transition economies joined. One the other hand, while the implementation of the GATT-minus rules weakened for small countries, they were frequently used by the key MTS members in their expanding trade relations with large NME countries outside the MTS.