On The Influence And Countermeasure Of Technical Trade Barrier On China's Exports

With the development of WTO and economic globalization, great changes have taken place with the trade protection methods. On the one hand, tariff level in most countries and traditional non-tariff measures such as quota and license have been cutting down in order to create wider freedom of international trade; on the other hand, the technical barriers to trade, as a more concealed trade protection measure, is becoming the main body of international trade barrier, especially for the developed countries. With China's entry into the WTO, our enterprises are enjoying the benefit of trade liberation, meanwhile they are also facing the great impacts of technical trade barriers. Our export trade has been constricted by the technical barriers of developed countries. Therefore, it is very important to analyze the nature and features of technical barriers and find out suitable countermeasures.The first section of this paper will explore in details the background, contents and basic principles of the Agreement of Technical Barriers to Trade and discuss the disparity and promises of our country to this agreement. The second section will investigate great impacts of technical barriers on China's export trade through analysis of concrete cases that our main industries have encountered. In order to overcome the restriction of the technical barriers to trade to our export trade, some suggestions and countermeasures are brought forward in the final section...