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Technical Barriers To Trade And The Countermeasures Of China

Posted on:2007-10-27Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1119360185960107Subject:Political economy
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Technical Barriers to Trade and Chinese SolutionsChinese foreign trade has made great progress since China adopts open policy. Its foreign trade volume has increased from USD 20.6 billion in 1978 to USD 1400 billion in 2005. According to the statistics, our foreign trade has kept increasing 20% since 2002 and remained Number 3 in the world in 2005. However, our foreign trade is still obstructed by trade barrier.With the development of globalization and free trade, the traditional trade barrier such as tariff, quotas, licenses are becoming weak, protectionism avail of Technical Barrier to Trade (TBT) to protect products. Owing to their advantage in technology, management, and environment protection, USA, Japan, and EU implement severe technical trade measures to restrict trade. A lot of Chinese goods have been restricted by TBT which has adverse effect on Chinese exports. How to cope with TBT is still a question to study.This dissertation studies TBT from the aspect of theory and practice. Its logical thoughts are as following:1.Analysing the basic TBT theory. First, we analyze TBT and its different forms. Technical standard, technical laws and qualified judgment are the basic forms of TBT. However, we should notice that the technical trade measures does not equal to TBT. In history, technical trade measures encouraged international division and productivity. Technical trade measures can be called TBT, if a country implements this technical trade measures for national security, human and animal health, environment protection and cheat avoiding which in fact restrict trade. Second, we analyze the characteristics of TBT, the reasons for TBT formation and forecast TBT. The wideness, flexibility, hide, legality of TBT help TBT become the main trade barrier in 21st century. The dissertation tries to find the political reason for TBT formation. We use Game theory and cost-benefit analysis to study TBT implementation of each country. We find that TBT is either the result of the game of countries or the result of the groups in one country. We also make a...
Keywords/Search Tags:TBT, China, Solutions
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