The Barriers Of International Trade Of Animal Welfare And Legal Countermeasures Research

The struggle between liberation of trade and trade protectionism has not stopped for even a short time. Traditional tariff and non-tariff barriers has abated, but a new kind of trade barrier appears which is called trade barrier of animal welfare with special feature of technical barrier and moral barrier. In April 2005, Chinese products of mink fur were resisted for the producer treat mink in a cruel way. Perhaps this case will remind Chinese government and scholars pay attention to the animal welfare and the influence of the trade barrier of animal welfare.Chinese economy developed in a sound way in recent years, but low level of productive forces and traditional mode of production make animal welfare far away from daily life and minds of Chinese common people, so some people think it ridiculous and unreasonable, even some scholars think animal welfare is anti-science, is a kind of invasion from western countries, which is problem of globalization. Facing the trade barrier of animal welfare any complaint is meaningless, the proper way to solve the problem is to find legal measure to deal with it .The article includes three parts to investigate Chinese legal measure to overcome trade barrier of animal welfare.The first part is mainly about the feature and cause of trade barrier of animal welfare. Follow the development of society, people paid more attention to healthy and surrounding of life of animal. In this part, The definition of animal welfare was insisted instead of animal right, then the moral and technical feature of the trade barrier of animal welfare was proved and argued. At last the reason why animal welfare can be trade barrier in international trade was analyzed.The second part is about the influence of trade barrier of animal welfare on Chinese international trade and law. The People's Republic of China ("PRC" or "China") is a vast country, richly endowed with forests, wildlife, and natural resources. China harbors an extensive number of plants and animal species .Products of animal are very important to Chinese economy so animal welfare is a heavy pressure for China. First of all, writer analyzed the influence of animal welfare from point of economic view that animal welfare influence...