Empirical Research Of The Impact Of Technical Barriers To Trade On Shandong's Agricultural Exports

Along with the international economic integration and liberalization of trade, technical barriers to trade(TBT) has become one of the most important instruments to gain trade profits for countries with the decreasing of tariff and other non-tariff barriers.Because of the differences of development of economy and level of technology, 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 products with comparative advantages in Shandong,agriculture products bear the brunt of TBT.Developed countries are rejecting more and more Chinese cheaper agriculture products on the excuse that our products may be unqualified according to their own standards. So the research in technical barriers to trade has become an urgent assignment and hotspot of non-tariff barriers study.However, most of the researches in TBT have focused on the introduction of foreign TBT status and agreement on WTO/TBT,or the appropriate suggestion to reform measures, while updated empirical research is limited.The quantitative analysis to TBT can provide data supporting for policy design and dispute settlement.Therefore the author starts research with expounding the origin and evolution of TBT;analyses the impact of standards and technical regulations on trade firstly,which can be either positive or negative,Then the author summarizes the TBT status in our agriculture trade and introduces the Gravity Model to analyze the impact on the MRL standards in the aquatic product export based on previous analysis.The results of empirical study show that the foreign MRL standards have negative impact on the aquatic product export but the MRL standards in China can increase export and the shared standards in two parties have positive impact on export.At last, the author provides some advices to tackle the TBT according to the above research.