Coutoms Answer To Non-traditional Security Strategies Under The Background Of Trade Facilication

Trade Facilitation and Trade Safety is a couple of contradiction. How to balance them is key point to promote global trade development. Now a lot of countries and many international organizations have given high attention to trade facilitation and safety. Customs is national administrative organization of trade supervision, and also is a symbol of national sovereign rights. So customs should undertake more responsibility to ensure foreign trade safety and trade facilitation.But China Customs is also threatened by non-traditional security, such as terrorism (Tibetan Separation, East Turkistan Independence, East Turkistan terrorist etc.), smuggling, environmental protection and culture security (such as intellectual property). Because of the continuous deepen of global integration; various kinds of safety problems can spill over (extend) from one country or district to another. So the threat of non-traditional security should be highly paid attention by our customs.The paper first discusses trade facilitation evolution and trade safety problem, and introduces the concept of trade facilitation, origin and relation with trade liberalization. We discuss the trade facilitation theory foundation in the sight of theory of international relations. From Free Trade Theory, Interdependence, Neoliberalism, Transaction Cost Theory, Customs Union Theory to New Regionalism Theory, and the paper studies theory origin of trade facilitation. The author introduces the endeavors of every international organization and Regional Alliance on how to advance trade facilitation, and analyze the relationship between facilitation and safety.Secondly, through discussing customs’ non-traditional security problems and analyzing World Customs Organization how to balance to trade facilitation and trade safety, the paper put forward the basic strategies to answer the non-traditional security threats:undertaking non-traditional function, strengthening international cooperation, and improving risk management. These are the main contents of the paper. Based on theory description, practical research and case study, the author put forward that customs should do the following things.(1) Changing traditional function, accepting the challenge and undertaking function to face non-traditional security;(2) Based on the further international cooperation, every country will resolve the non-traditional security as the global problem, and realize national cooperation to manage customs affairs;(3) Customs risk management will be the necessary choice to answer non-traditional security. In order to reducing non-traditional security threats, customs should be able to exactly predict and find all kinds of security problems in time, and offer effective solutions and strategies.At last, the author considered that customs should undertake the non-traditional function, such as anti-terrorist and environment protection etc. and ensure port security. In addition, depending on international cooperation, common safety should be realized in bilateral, multilateral and regional mechanisms. In the case of increased trade and shorted manpower source, risk management should be put into effect to enhance the customs supervision ability and ensure the trade safety.