Study On Trade Measures Of The "Carbon Tariff"

Global climate change profound impact on human survival and development, although the international community has reached a number of relevant international environmental conventions but those conventions have no effective mechanism for monitoring implementation, the Copenhagen Climate Conference make people full of worries about more greenhouse gas reduction row in the future. Despite the common but differentiated principle is agree with the international community. But some developed countries that if the restrictions of developed countries to greenhouse gas emissions rather than greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries make a clear restriction, on the one hand would lead to "carbon leakage"; the other hand, the developing countries will uncontrolled emissions caused by efforts on the developed countries, after all, the atmosphere have no boundaries. Therefore, the United States and other developed countries have started planning for some energy-intensive export products impose carbon border adjustment tax, the so-called "carbon tariff."At present, although a considerable portion of the developed countries are advocating a so-called "carbon tariff" measures, but currently only two countries the U.S. and the UK, have the real legislative level, the United States in 2009, "Clean Energy Security Act" and the United Kingdom's "low-carbon transformation plan, "" carbon tariff "measures as a new type of green trade barrier, one of which appears by the international community, especially the developing countries against it. Meanwhile, as a trade measure with WTO preamble, GATT Article 20 (b) (g) and theTBT Agreement, the two relevant provisions of the conflict and the conflict there. China is the second largest trading power of the world, but also energy-intensive industrial products exporter, if the United States and other countries to take carbon-tariff measures, would be a significant impact on our industry. Will increase exports of high carbon cost of business, causing varying degrees of decline in manufacturing exports, changes in China's export commodities and trade structure, and to some extent, deterioration in the export environment. China's future from the following aspects should be positive measures to address carbon tariff trade barriers. First, the introduction of international experiences carbon tax. Second, the introduction of market competition, breaking the monopoly of the energy industry. Again, research and development to promote new technologies, increase low-carbon industries. Finally, the legal system building carbon emissions trading, improve the supporting laws and regulations.