As our country joins WTO, Chinese foreign trade development faces new chances and challenges. At present in order to protect trade, the western developed countries perform trade protectionism strategy by actively taking new non-tariff barrier measures. The green barrier is the most popular one. The green barrier is a new and extensively-used non-tariff trade barrier. Its appearance is caused by many reasons of which the main one is that people pay more attention to environmental problem unprecedentedly and trade protectionists try to explore new trade protective measures.The essay analyzes the inevitability for its appearance from the origin of green barrier, then analyzes its kinds , features and economic effects, put forward a series of handling measures by discussing the influences that green barrier produces on macro-economy and concrete industries and analyzing the reasons that China encounters green barrier frequently in order to obtain an achievement on breaking through green barrier and promoting economic sustainable development. The essay is divided into five parts:The first part discusses the development of international protected theory and green barrier. First, it analyzes the history of international protected trade theory from mercantilism, national infant industry protected theory, super trade protectionism, new trade protectionism to new trade protection theory, then analyzes the inevitability for its appearance from the origin of green barrier.The second part discusses the performances, features and economic effects of green barrier. First it analyzes the seven kinds of performance and four kinds of characteristics for green barrier; then discusses its economic effects: quantity control, price control and trade restriction of exported goods.The third part analyzes the effects of green barrier on our foreign trade economy. First it analyzes the positive influences and negative conflicts of green barrier from macro-aspect; then analyzes the concrete influences of green barrier from fives industries.The fourth part analyzes the reasons that China encounters green barrier frequently. It has external and internal reasons, and the five internal reasons is the most essential.The fifth part analyzes our countermeasures dealing with green barrier. A series of advice for surmounting and using green barrier are given from government, trade association and enterprise points. |