The Analysis On The Sino-US Textile Trade Friction

The trade volume of the textile and clothing is the biggest of all the commodities in Sino-US trade. The textile is also the main commodity that China exports to USA and that causes the most trade friction between the two countries. This phenomenon further reveals in the Post-quota era. Just in 2005, with the sharp increase in China's export, the USA successively made special investigation on our seven kinds of textile and set limits to the import quantity. Each kind of textile that was limited at least involves 1000 enterprises and some even involves 6000 enterprises. This has made a bad influence on our 20 billion dollars export and 160,000 people who try to get employed and would cause some inestimatable economical and social problems. Thanks to the diplomats of the two countries, this trade friction wasn't upgraded into a trade war. However, we must clearly see that the memorandume is just an expedient measure. So long as the factor initiating friction hasn't been eliminated, the possibility that cause rubs still exists. This essay tries to use the international political economics research method to make a all-round and rational explanation to the cause of the Sino-US textile trade friction and the visual angle will involve economy, politics, law and culture aspects. On the basis of finding the cause, this essay will provide the government and the enterprises with countermeasure suggestions according to the problems that were revealed in the process of friction, and draw lessons to give some help to relevant decision-making and consults.This essay is composed of five parts. The first part will introduce the current situation of the American textile foreign trade and their trade policy. Firstly, it will introduce the current situation and the characteristic of the American textile industry, from which we can see the American textile already being in obvious inferior position and just preserving their own advantage in a few peculiar fields. Secondly, this part will discuss the current situation of the American textile foreign trade from import volume, import commodity composition and entrance source aspects. Finally, it will discuss the current policy of the textile trade control in America to provide the policy background for analyzing the cause of the Sino-US textile trade friction.The second part will introduce the development of the Sino-US textile trade from trade scales, trade composition, Chinese textile goods'competition ability on USA market and the situation of friction that exists in bilateral textile trade etc. We can conclude there is a great altitude in USA textile and Chinese textile, and both countries can benefit from the bilateral trade. But we should also notice the imbalance in the Sino-US textile trade development, which means the USA suffers from trade deficit. This phenomenon leads to two results. On one hand, the trade volume of the two countries grows increasingly every year. On the other hand, the trade friction occurs now and then, and displays different characteristics in different historical period.The third part is the most important one of this essay. The international political economics research method will be used to analyse the cause of the friction. It is pointed that both the economy factor and the other factor result in the friction, which is creative to some content. Speaking in detail, this part tries to explain the friction from economy, politics, law and culture aspects. When it comes to the economy factor, this essay uses the commodity's life cycle theory to explain why the USA try to protect its textile foreign trade and discuss the factor that causes the friction both from macroscopic view and microcosmic view. When it comes to politics factor, this essay play an emphasis on the influence that the interest group makes on the USA trade policy and points out that the friction is the American strategic choice to carry out the America free trade agreement, serving for its national strategy to keep Chinese within limits ultimately. In terms of explaining law factor, the essay has given detailed explanation on law documents which American "special safeguard"accords to and pointed out disadvantageous influences on China. Moreover, the essay believes that there is a reason on cultural lay both in the occurrence of textile trade friction between China and America and the solving methods. So the cultural factor is also dissertated simply.The forth part dissertates the influences of the textile trade friction on the two countries. We can see that the friction is a two-edged sword that takes different degree harms on both countries. From the analysis we can approve further that America enkindle the friction not only for the consideration of economic interest but also the representation of turning the problem into a political one.The fifth part reveals the inspiration of Sino-US textile trade friction to China, and put forward proposals from the government and the enterprise level. It points out that the Chinese textile industry's healthy development needs the government and enterprises to cooperate. One aspect is to strengthen the governments of the textile industry in macro-control and increased government use of WTO rules to protect the interests of our country; the other is that the enterprises should avoid trade friction through upgrading of the product structure, market diversification strategy and overseas investment.Through the above analysis, we reach the following conclusion: in the transfer process of the global textile industry, the United States declining textile industry can not stand a blow in the face of the cheap Chinese export textile. For industrial security and political interests, the United States government begins to protect the textile trade. And the various legal documents which China signed when entered the WTO at a special safeguard provision for representatives makes China to response to the United States in the course of trade protection living in a disadvantaged position. Sino-U.S. textile trade friction reveals many problems of Chinese textile industry. At the same time, it urges the Chinese government and enterprises to address industrial development of the outstanding issues, and has accumulated valuable experience for China using diplomatic means to resolve the trade friction under the WTO rules .To promote the health of the textile industry in long-term, to fundamentally improve its international competitiveness, to enhance its ability to deal with trade protection, the Chinese government and enterprises have to co-ordinate and take measures to upgrade the textile industry, and regulate export order. At the same time, we should make full preparation for the incoming trade friction and enhance our ability to use the WTO rules to protect our interests. 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