Countermeasures on domestic market opening to foreign competition eyed

In the midst of the impending domestic market opening to foreign competition, much interest has been focused on the measures to alleviate non-tariff barriers and tariff cutting related to the WTO's DDA (Doha Development Agenda) negotiations, which is scheduled to be extended until 2004.

Market analysts say that as the Unites States has strongly proposed the WTO members to include drugs in th...