The Influence Of Technical Barriers To Trade On Technological Innovation Of SMEs And Coping Strategy Of China

With trade liberalization and global integration, quota restriction and high tariff have become history in the field of international trade. Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT for short) is becoming a new way of developed countries to protect their new products. As a new mean of trade protection, the emergence of TBT has a profound impact on developing countries, including China. This impact on SMEs (small and medium enterprises) as an important force of Chinese exports is particularly serious. The technical standards of many developed countries are various, and technical requirements are generally higher than that of developing countries. TBT objectively reflects the technology gap between the developed countries and developing countries. At the same time, TBT also reflects the consumer's higher demand on product safety and quality, the recognition degree to environmental protection is also getting higher and higher. If Chinese SMEs want to stand in an invincible position behind the increasingly fierce competition of international market, technological innovation is absolutely necessary. From this point, the study on TBT's influence on technological innovation of SMEs and the coping strategy is important on theoretical value and practical significance.Firstly, this paper summarizes the present results of TBT, technological innovation of SMEs, and TBT's impact on technological innovation of SMEs, and also systematically analyzes existing problems and future development trends. It expounds the theoretical basis, and analyses social responsibilities and the various manifestations of TBT, as well as definition, classification, character, effect of barriers to trade, which builds the foundation for later study.From the perspective of trade and quality control, it investigates TBT's influence mechanism on technological innovation of SMEs. For one thing, from the aspect of trade, it reveals the impact of TBT on technological innovation of SMEs in the number of products, as well as the price and composite inhibitory mechanism. For the other thing, from the aspect of quality control, it reveals that TBT essentially belongs to the products control methods of importing country. Through game analysis, it shows the importance of technological innovation in response to TBT. Chinese SMEs not only need to learn advanced foreign technology to acquire and improve their own quality standards, but also need to carry on technological innovation to reduce costs, in order to leap over TBT. It also reflects the impact of TBT on the effects of technological innovation of SMEs. Based on designing evaluation index system of TBT levels and technological innovation capacity of SMEs respectively, it adopts grey correlation analysis methods and information entropy, measuring the correlation between TBT and technical innovation, and ranking them. And then, it puts forward the model of TBT's influence on technological innovation of SMEs, which is explained from external and internal environment of technological innovation of SMEs. TBT has effect on the trade and technology environment of technological innovation of SMEs, so it changes the resource allocation of technological innovation of SMEs, which also changes the speed, direction and scale of technological innovation. On the basis of analyzing advantages and disadvantages in the technological innovation of SMEs against TBT, it constructs the supporting system of technological innovation of SMEs to cope with TBT, so it provides a good service platform for technological innovation of SMEs.Using the case of CR's influence on WenZhou lighter, it proves all the thereorical study above. Analyzing the influence of CR Bill on the internal and external environment and the influence mechanism of technological innovation of WenZhou lighter, it studies the coping measures used by WenZhou lighter to deal with TBT.Finnaly, it puts forward the strategy from enterprises, trade associations and the government to improve technological innovation capacity of SMEs. SMEs should implement standardization strategy and strengthen supervision and inspection by introducing advanced testing standards and testing equipment, so as to truly improve the technical capacity to surpass foreign TBT. Trade associations should establish the bridge and link between SMEs and related organizations at home and abroad, also between the government and SMEs, and build service market. The government should mainly provide the environment of policy supporting for technological innovation of SMEs to deal with TBT.This article has a comprehensive and thorough study on TBT's influence on technological innovation of SMEs, which provides effective theoretical basis for understanding of trade development of Chinese SMEs and the management of technological innovation of SMEs. As a result, it provides an important reference for the relevant decision-making and formulation of policies and regulations.