Use Of Wto / Sps Agreement To Protect And Promote China's Agricultural Product Import And Export Trade Issues

China is an ancient agricultural country with a long history of crop production. With the accelerated industrialization, the value of the agriculture is dwindling as a department. However, the relationship of mutual promotion and development between agriculture and national economy becomes closer and closer. There is no substitute for the basic status of agriculture in the national economy. With the entry into WTO, the development of China's agriculture experiences an unprecedented opportunity, especially there will be a broad developing space of the characteristic agriculture and the competitive staple agricultural products. On the other hand, it will encounter impact and challenge. It should be said that the challenge is realistic and the opportunity is potential. The challenge is more direct and faster than the opportunity.Agricultural production is a kind of biological production and is mainly influenced by natural disaster, plant diseases and insect pests. The outstanding feature of the import and export of agricultural products is that only a few people can get profits but the risk of violating ecological safety must be untaken by the whole district or the whole society. Therefore, every country in the world generally applies the sanitary and phytosanitary measures to protect the agricultural production and ecological safety. In order to reduce the negative influence on the trade of agricultural products by the barriers of sanitary and phytosanitary rules and the casualness of stipulating sanitary and phytosanitary measures, the Uruguay Round of the trade negotiations of GATT formulates the 《Agreement on the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures》( abbreviated to SPS Agreement). With its application, SPS Agreement, as the focus of international trade dispute, has been attached more and more importance. With the entry into WTO, SPS Agreement, as an im0portant agreement in the field of agriculture products trade, will certainly nave profound influence on the agricultural products trade. In order to fulfill member's obligations and enjoy member's rights, we must carry out thorough research into the contents of SPS Agreement. This thesis studies and researches the feasible measures of expanding the export of our country's agricultural products and protecting the safety of national agricultural production, the ecological environment and people's health by elaborating WTO/SPS Agreement's influences on our country's agricultural production and the import and export of agricultural products and analyzingthe existing problems of the system, legislation and standard during the application of the SPS Agreement.Chapter One: introducing the outline of our country's agricultural development. It comprehensively introduces the natural resource, the course of the development and the industrial structure of our country's agriculture, the status of agriculture in the national economy and the conditions of import and export of the main agriculture products and explains that there is no substitute for the basic status of agriculture in the national economy. Agriculture flourishes, all the other industries flourish. Agriculture declines, all the other industries decline. It is an important and urgent task to promote the development of agriculture and raise the income of the farmers, which will have a direct influence on the economic development and stableness of the society of our country.Chapter Two: introducing the promises made by our government to the WTO on the opening of the agricultural products market and explaining the influence on the domestic production by opening the domestic agricultural products market with the examples of grains, poultries, cotton, corn, oil-bearing crops, horticulture products and animal products. It discusses the measures of catching the opportunity of entering into WTO and promoting the modernization of agriculture from the aspects of changing the type of subsidization and putting more into agriculture; promoting the transfer of the usufruct of the field and enlarging the busines...