Green Barriers On China's Trade And Its Countermeasures

The earth is in mire peril than ever before: sever pollution, climate changing, forest reduction, species extinction, destroy of ozonosphere, white pollution-" If the world' s climate begins to change rapidly and dramatically and the landscape continues to acidify, if hazardous, gene - altering synthetic substances continue to enter our flesh, if we continue to waste nature' s bounty and extirpate our biological resources, if we continue to deploy destructive technologies without recognizing their ultimate effects, then our children and grandchildren will live on a hot, dry, hungry, unhealthy, unlovely, and dangerous planet. Facing such a pressing situation , in contemporary world the idea of environmental protection and sustainable development is exerting a tremendous influence on all aspects of world political and economic affairs. The issues that related to environment and trade are drawing increasing attention from people. The United Nations held the Human Environmental Conference in 1972, at which the issue of Trade and Environment was put forward for the first time. Since then, the issue had got extensive and close attention from the international society. Nowadays the environment problem has been one of the significant topics in the field of international trade.With the running of the GATT and WTO, tariff barriers are continually cut down, and non - tariff barriers are limited more and more rigidly. But developed countries adopt enthusiastically the measures of non - tariff barriers aiming at the purpose of trade protection, and green barrier has been the most prevalent type at present. This kind of barrier known as "green barrier" which is seemingly legal has and will keep having harmful effect on China's export trade in recent years. Green barrier has lay serious stress and challenge on our country' s export business . Statistics suggest that, in 1997 the value of our country's export goods that is limited and banned has amounted to 74 hundred million, and in 1999 reached to 115 hundred million. After China's entry WTO, Chinese products will face the barrier of green barrier in the international market whenever they come into the international market. Therefore, how to break the green barrier should be an important problem that Chinese government and enterprises are facing . So the author think it is imperative that we studied deeply green barrier, and especially we should think highly of its influence on the export of our country. We should study the basiccontent and features of green barrier carefully, to analyze the effect which green barrier does to China in details by using examples, to face the challenges and the opportunities green barrier does to China's export trade and bring forward workable countermeasure, to impel good inter -action of trade and environment actively in order to accelerate export trade's sustainable development. Triat's the background of conception of dissertation. An investigation of this problem is of immense theoretical and practical value.The dissertation consists of three parts.In the first part, the thesis mainly explains some basic theories about green barrier. Based on the definition of green barrier and bounding the characteristic standards of green barrier correctly, the thesis briefly analyzes green barrier's character and generates causes of it.The second part mainly concludes with the impact of green barriers on China' s export. This part looks back and analyzes the development and status quo of China's export trade first, and analyzes the positive and negative effects which is brought by green barrier on the base of it. On the hand, green barrier places a premium on export enterprise to innovate and create competition advantages and priority; on the other hand, green barrier brings bad effect to China's export trade, such as reducing the speed of export, shirk the export market, lower the economic benefit of export enterprises and picks up bilateral or muM - lateral friction in trade.The third part is the most important part of the thesis. In this par...