从WTO与“文化例外”看国际文化贸易规则

The Study of International Cultural Trade Rules with the Aspect of WTO and “Cultural Exception”

本文首先厘清了中国等发展中国家在研究国际文化贸易规则中应秉持的价值倾向是"文化例外",重点分析的管理机制为WTO,然后结合三个经典的国际文化贸易案例对在WTO中体现"文化例外"精神的国际文化贸易规则进行了详细的分析,并归纳了相关的主要争议点和难点,最后进行了总结并就中国在国际文化贸易争端解决策略及其规则制定参与上提出了自己的建议。

International cultural trade not only brings significant direct eco- nomic benefits, its ＂integral effects＂ and ＂radiation effects＂ can also play a vital role as an engine of economic growth, especially for developing countries with rich cultural resources. Since strong support of cultural industries and internation- al cultural trade would become policy choice, we need to highlight the impor- tance of understanding and learning of international cultural trade rules. This pa- per firstly clarifies that the developing countries such as China should uphold the value of ＂cultural exception＂ and focus on the management mechanism of the WTO in the study of international cultural trade rules, then conducts a detailed analysis of the international cultural trade rules that embody the spirit of the ＂cul- tural exception＂, based on three classic cases in the WTO. Then we sum up the difficulties and main points at issue, at last we make some suggestions for China on the disputes settlement strategy and rule-making participation of international cultural trade.