Study Of Counter-Measure For Technical Barriers To China Foreingn Trade

At the beginning of this century, China has been succeeded in entering WTO. Although deepen along with the economic globalization, the import and export tariff has been cut down gradually, but our foreign trade is faced with both a rare opportunity and grave challenges all the long time. The tariff restriction on our products will lose its main role gradually and will be replaced by more veiled non-tariff barriers. As a member of WTO, with more closely international economic trade relationship with other nations and regions, how to draw lessons from other countries, make full use of protection items and technical trade barrier measures to protect national industry, while coped with technical trade barriers, enlarge export, gain more economical benefit, is the most urgent problem of our government and enterprises.Similar to other non-tariff barriers, the technical trade barrier superficially shows to promote trade, but physically its aim is to obstruct trade. At first, the technical trade barrier was brought up to protect the advantage of national consumers, so it has been made some contributions to the development of international trade. But followed with keen trade competitions, more and more developed countries trend to adopt new protectionism measures, especially technical trade barriers to hold back competitors'commodities. Because of the differences between economical development and technical level of each country, there are many technical trade barrier forms, so restrictions to international trade and investment soon appeared.Technical trade barrier has characteristics of complexity, bias on content, dynamic on the treatment and trending on development. Reasonably establish and carry out the technical laws, standards, qualified procedures, can support national economic safety, guarantee the mankind'health and safety, protect the ecosystem environment, promote to adjust industrial structure, norm market order, keep continuous development on economic and society. But, abuse these measures lead to technical trade barrier, which will distort normal development of the international trade and investment, constitute new protectionism.With the progress of science and technology, new examining methods appear continuously, so acquires to import merchandise are more severe. Technical trade barrier affects the economic policy establishment of each country, as a result, directly or indirectly restrict the development speed of international trade, and at certain degree, affect the merchandise structure and geography direction of international trade, cause trade friction and conflicts between different countries and conglomerates. As the biggest developing country in the world, we are faced with more and more challenges of technical trade barrier measures from developed countries.We should realize the hardship of cope with technical trade barrier in the times of global protectionism, combine macroscopic strategy with microscopic ones, initiatively apply international technical criterion to our practical fields.From here, this article tries to take in to investigate in this several aspects, emphasize to combine actual case example with analyzing technical trade barriers influences, give some advice on the counter-measure that is to set up our protecting system.