| In the era of the post-financial crisis, the global economy appears its recovery tendency, but its recovery pace is slowing down apparently and there are many uncertain factors in the process of the economic recovery of the world. The tendencies of the trade protectionism from various countries are being aggravated and new trade barriers are emerging in an endless stream with the features of more concealment and non-predictability as well as harder-being supervised, e.g. such trade protective measures taken by many countries as trade barriers in technology, green trade barriers, conditions of market access and anti-dumping, anti-subsidy, etc..With the economy recovers gradually, the domestic contradictions of all countries are highlighted day by day, the sovereign debt problems crop up in Europe, the numbers of unemployed people in US rise continuously, there is social and political unrest in the north African area and the exchange rate fluctuation intensifies, which results in the Chinese renminbi appreciation and is especially harmful to the import and export trade of our country. Furthermore, the forms of the new trade protectionism are of more universality and concealment, and its means are more diversified. Therefore, under the situation of the shrinking market demand we faced with and the increasing export cost, we must expand domestic demand, stimulate demands, and adjust the industrial structure of our country.Under the situations and circumstances that various countries takes the measures of trade protectionism, our country has had many trade frictions with other countries and has been faced with the difficult situation of trade disputes and export recession. This essay, by elaborating the theoretical origin of trade protectionism, analyses the reason and characteristic of the new trade protectionism taken by various countries in the post-financial crisis era, points out the dilemma and challenges that our foreign trade is confronted with, and puts forward relative policy suggestions on point of view of the government and foreign trade enterprises by combining with the actual situation of the import and export trade and the economic development of our country. |