The Economic Effect Of The Implement Of SA8000 In China's Export Corporations

With the development of the China's marketing reform, especially after its entry into WTO, China's economy becomes part of the economic globalization. China is becoming the"world factory", and the export-oriented industrialization is gradually formed. But at the same time, the social responsibility problem of the China's export corporations stands out and attracts the international attention. In particular, after the developed countries and multinational corporations promoting SA8000, the China's export corporations has been deeply influenced, even some factories lost orders for they could not meet the requirements of SA8000.The basic contents and the characteristics of SA8000 are introduced, and on this basis, the bad effect and good effect of the implementation of SA8000 on China's export corporations are respectively analyzed. From the economic angle, and by the analysis of supply-demand curve and trade condition curve, the implementation of SA8000 will have bad effect on China's corporations in the short term, for example, reducing the export quantity, worsening the trade condition and decreasing benefits, and influencing the upgrade of China's trade structure. But if corporations implement SA8000, the whole management will be improved, the corporations'image will become good, and the international competitiveness will become strong. So in the long term, the implementation of SA8000 will have good effect on Chinese export corporations. That can be proved by the demonstration of Hebei Yawei Costume Corporation. After they implemented SA8000, orders have increased dramatically, and the profit has increased 22.58%.China should not be afraid of the challenge that SA8000 has brought out, and should meet it actively. In the short term, the government should guide corporations to implement SA8000, and the corporations should try their best to meet this challenge to improve the competitiveness. But the fundamental solution is to improve the social responsibility level of corporations by constructing the system of China's social responsibility standards. Therefore, a system of social...