Study On The Social Barrier And Its Effects In International Trade

With the effective increase of our economy, the ascendant trend of our export has been remarkable for a long time. But the trade protective measures, from all many other countries, have direct and deep influence on our increasing export volume. As a new trade barrier, Social Barrier has greatly impacted our export.Labor standards, as the core of Social Barrier, remain to be a controversial focus between developed countries and developing countries. Developed countries have taken great efforts to establish the correlation between labor standards and trade;during negotiation in WTO agenda, they always put forward this issue, if this had successfully done, that will be favorable for their benefit.So it is not only of high theory significance but also of high realistic value to study the Social Barrier deeply and systematically.This paper began with basic concept, combining with practice, researched the content of Social Barrier, process and trend of development.This paper analyzed the trade, welfare and industrial effects of Social Barrier;we found that effects restrained the export in short time.This paper explores the correlation between labor standards and export. Based on the theories of labor standard and trade, both quantified analysis and empirical analysis are applied to disclose the implied relationship between labor standards and export. Though labor standards itself covers a wide range of items, discussion of labor standards is restricted to wages. We found that export of foreign enterprises dedicated very little to labor standards in our country. The same effects of our own enterprises.Finally studying the essence of the Social Barrier, summarizing practical experience, it helps our government and enterprises to establish pertinent countermeasures to ensure our export.With the rapid development of external trade of our country, it begins more important to study the theory and practice of the Social Barrier. Sincerely hoping that the work made by this paper should offer a bit consulting for our country to conquer the new trade barriers.