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20799669

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-8-30
pubmed:abstractText
Tobacco market liberalization can have a profound impact on health. This article analyzes internal documents of British American Tobacco (BAT), released as a result of litigation in the United States, in order to examine the company's attempts to influence negotiations over China's accession to the World Trade Organization. The documents demonstrate that BAT attempted to influence these negotiations through a range of mechanisms, including personal access of BAT employees and lobbyists to policymakers; employment of former civil servants from key U.K. government departments; use of organized business groups such as the Multinational Chairmen's Group and the European Round Table; and participation and leadership in forums organized by Chatham House. These processes contributed to significant concessions on the liberalization of the tobacco market in China, although the failure to break the Chinese state monopoly over the manufacture and distribution of cigarettes has ensured that foreign tobacco companies' share of the Chinese market has remained small. World Trade Organization accession has nevertheless led to a profound restructuring of the Chinese tobacco industry in anticipation of foreign competition, which may result in more market-based and internationally oriented Chinese tobacco firms.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0020-7314
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
40
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
421-41
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Trade policy, health, and corporate influence: British American tobacco and China's accession to the World Trade Organization.
pubmed:affiliation
Centre on Global Change and Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom. chris.holden@lshtm.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural