Wto Research And Product Liability Legal System

According to the promises our nation took to enter WTO,our country will continue to enlarge the foreign trade and this will lead to economic growth of our country. However,with the internationalization of manufacture and marketing,phenomena that products with defects produced in a country cause consumers' or users' personal damage or property loss in the importing country or a third country increases day by day. Since there are many differences between the laws on product responsibility of different country,which will baffle our to develop foreign trade under WTO rules as well as protect Chinese consumers from products with defects,we must strengthen the research to the laws of product responsibility of other countries,especially the major nations of WTO,and coordinate the relation between the law on product responsibility of our country and those of other countries,and,perfect the laws on product responsibility of our country.This paper is aimed to solve the problems in product responsibility issues appears after P.R.C entered WTO. We first discussed the basic theories of product responsibility,then with methods of correlative theories' and comparing analysis,we compared and analyzed the product responsibility laws of the major countries of the Ocean Legalism System and the Continent Legalism System. Finally,we described the present situation of product responsibility laws of our country,presented defects of them and provided suggestions to improve them.