The Impact And Countermeasures Of TBT To Chinese Agricultural Products Export Trade

Along with the world economic integration and liberalization of trade, the technical barriers to trade (TBT) have become one of the most important adjusting trade benefit instruments. Because of the gap between development of economy and level of technology in countries, standards and technical regulations that have once contributed to the development of international trade and the progress of human society now make a substantial block to international trade, furthermore, some developed countries use them as tools for trade protection. According to difference in the development of economy and the level of technology from developed countries, developing countries are always at a disadvantage in the face of TBT.As one of traditional export with comparative advantages in China, agricultural products beat the brunt of TBT. First, developed countries are rejecting more and more Chinese cheaper agricultural products on the excuse that our products can be not qualified according to their own standards. On the other hand, owing to the difference in resource endowment and technological level, competitive agricultural products from developed countries may be dump into China, a serious lash onto Chinese agriculture economy and farmer's life. So the research in technical barriers to trade has become an urgent assignment and hotspot non-tariff barriers study.Therefore the author starts research with manifestation, characteristic and development tendency of TBT, analyzing the economic effects of TBT on trade firstly, which can be either positive or negative. We try to combine the analysis frame of new institutional economics, analyzing the negative influence of TBT on developing countries. It actually increases the developing countries' production cost, weakens international competitive strength of export agricultural products. Then, this article pulls into the newest cases and digitals to analyze the actual influences of TBT on our agricultural products. At last, the author provides some advice to tackle the TBT according to the above research.