Integrating Non-Market Economies into the International Trading System

Abstract

“After competing in the cold war, the arms race, and the space race, the United States and Russia are still locked in an epic competition. This time it’s over who can raise plump, affordable chickens” (Birch 2004). Disputes over chicken parts do not appear to be the stuff of which high politics is made, however this trade dispute was elevated to the level of congressional debates and arguments in the Russian Parliament (Birch 2004). It was even cited as a major stumbling block to Russia’s WTO membership bid (Alden 2003). It became an outlet for frustration over Russia’s continued treatment as a non-market economy, and served to galvanize debate about the appropriate use of anti-dumping trade remedy laws.