China's grey channels as access points for foreign food products to the Chinese domestic market

China Information

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 61-74

  Collins, Ray ^a   Sun, Ximing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corruption; Food markets; Free Trade Agreement; Grey channel; WTO

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749283153     PISSN: 0920203X     EISSN: 1741590X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0920203X09354962     Document Type: Article

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