Reflections On The Barriers Of Intellectual Property Rights Confronted With Chinese Enterprises

With China's gradually permitting foreign competitors' access to domestic markets after its entry into WTO in 2001, more and more Chinese enterprises are speeding their pace to involve themselves into the world and demonstrating their industrial competitive edges in international trade. During this process, they also come across many trade barriers in global competition. Now an urgent non-tariff tradebarrier------IPR (intellectual property rights) barrier is setting obstaclesfor Chinese enterprises. This kind of IPR barrier, different from the general understanding of its definition, here refers to all measures and strategies taken by developed countries and their multinational corporations, under the name of IPR protection, to take advantage of their IPR strength in order to restrict further market expansion of enterprises from developing countries in ways of customs measures, patent containment and IPR infringement litigations, aiming to transfer the trade benefits of manufacturing irrationally from developing countries to developed ones. Based on the present situation, this paper expands the definition of IPR barrier and analyzes in depth the theoretical reason forthis new barrier------conflicts at various levels between regionalmanagement of IPR and global freedom of international trade. Models of the IPR barriers and economical effects are presented afterwards to prove their distortion of normal trade and harms to developing countries. Finally, with data supports from Guangdong, some counter-measures are proposed for Chinese enterprises to deal with the IPR barriers.