Abstract:

With the development of the world economic integration and trade liberalization, the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA), as one of the World Trade Organization (WTO) multilateral trade agreements, is the most important international treaty for international community to regulate the government procurement market The cases, during the period from General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to WTO, mainly discussed the dispute of purchasing subjects, the principle of non-discrimination, the value of procurement contract and exceptional provisions etc Chinese government should apply those cases in joining GPA, considering China’s economic conditions and the policies or goals of government procurement, in order to promote the establishment of a mature procurement mechanism in the domestic market China can make a reform on the fields of procurement entity range, the pricing ways of procurement contract and technological conditions etc Meanwhile, based on the principle of reciprocity, China should take advantage of the rational exceptions, and integrate the domestic law with GPA rules for the benign development of the government procurement

Key words: Agreement on Government Procurement, the procuring entity, the scope of procurement, exception