The Research Of Technical Barriers To Textile Trade

With the common appearance of national legislations over technical barriers to trade in textiles in all countries, especially the developed countries, technical trade barriers are increasing all over the time. After the abolition of global textile quotas, technical barriers to trade in textiles, as one of the most hided effective means, have become the major obstacle for Chinese exports of textile and clothing products. The harsh technical barriers to trade in textiles seriously affect the export of textile and clothing products of China, increase costs of export and decline our market share. The adverse effect of the trend even impacts trade relations between china and other countries. But, in the long term, technical barriers to trade in textiles favorable effects to the development of China's textile and clothing industry.This thesis analyzes technical barriers to trade in textiles problem in six parts: The first part is the introduction, which describes the changing international environment for China's textile trade and the background of technical barriers to trade in textiles; The second part is an overview of the content, forms and legal characters of technical barriers to trade in textiles; The third part introduces the legal regulations under the WTO framework and the impact of the legal regulations; The fourth part describes structures of technical barriers to trade in textiles in the United States, EU, and Japan and analyzes the negative and positive impact on Chinese future textile trade development; The fifth part is the legal response analysis. The focuses of the thesis contain textiles technical regulations, technical standards, certification and evaluation procedures, coordination, response and dispute settlement, proposing specific countermeasures for china; The sixth part is the conclusion.