EU's Services Trade Promotion Policy And Its Implications For China

With the world's industrial structure constantly optimizing and upgrading, service trade shows the strategic importance gradually in the world economic development. As the world's largest trading bloc, the EU trade in services takes a even more prominent position, and its trade policy has been developed very well which provides a lot of lessons to the emerging countries like China. Making a research on the effect of EU policies on the development of services trade, and making some recommendations on the development of China's service trade policy, which is significant not only for improving the structure of China's foreign trade and speeding up China's trade, but also for the future of China's industrial restructuring.This paper takes both quantitative and qualitative research methods to analyze the promote policy of EU trade in services and explores its enlightenment to China. The structure is as follows:Firstly, it describes the purpose and the significance of this research, and introduces the study dynamics of this area. Secondly, the paper investigates the EU's institutional arrangements on service trade. It introduced the process of EU's service trade policy, the " Maastricht Treaty " and the elements related to service trade at first, and then introduced the sub-sector policy of service trade, this part were focused on the financial, telecommunications, transportation and tourism services. Thirdly, it analyzes the promote measures on service trade policies of EU's major member countries. This chapter respectively compared the authority settings, institutions' promotion measurements of the United Kingdom, France and Germany. Fourthly, it studies China's current situation on service trade. Through analysis of several economic indicators, effects and problems on China's service trade policy were showed out. Finally, the paper got the conclusion and made some accordance proposals on how to promote China's service trade policy.