Impacts Of EU Agricultural Trade Barriers On China 's Agricultural Products Export And Countermeasures

In this economic environment today, the development of agriculture is a very importantthing. For every country in this world, agriculture is the foundation of all otherindustries. So, in this situation now, countries around the world matter agriculture a lot andpay great attention to the international trade of agricultural products and take it as the key theeconomic growth. To our country, European Union is a very important partner of China in thetrade of agricultural products, In our country, there are a large part of agriculturalproducts exported to countries in the European union every year. From this point ofview, how to get the advantage in the trade of agricultural products, is the key point that bothsides focus on.At present, there are such provisions in the World Trade Organization Agreement ontrade in agricultural products: members in WTO have the right to protect the safety of foodand the safety of environment, According to the country’s own situation, set up the standardson behalf of country’s real situation. Even the standard setted by the country may be higherthan the standard provisions of the world trade organization, but as long as the standardpasses the risk of the assessment, and also is aimed to protect the security of national foodsecurity and environment safety, it can also get the appropriate affirmation. And, becausethe western country government pay more attention to the human rights, the people will alsopay more attention to food safety, and the western media are more developed, have freedomon their speech, and after Europe experienced such as mad cow disease, the pressure from allsides, the relevant requirements of the import of agricultural products, then become morestrictly. China’s agricultural products quality is lower than it in other country, and the quantityis pretty big, there are many problems on agricultural products’ export enterprises as well asthe quarantine inspection department in china. Therefore, the enterance of China’s agriculturalproducts to the EU market will be a big obstacle, agricultural products’ trade barriers in theEU makes the export of China’s agricultural products against extremely adverse effects.The economy situation of countries in the EU is not very well, then EU try to protect thedevelopment of their own agricultural products industry to make their economies to berestored. Then in view of our country’ agricultural product trade, EU set up many kinds ofbarriers, such as customs, the green trade barriers, technical barriers to trade, and variouskinds of complex inspection and quarantine laws, and also some high standards and strictcertification system constitute barriers to the trade. Because EU is an important partner ofChina, facing these unreasonable, discriminatory trade barriers that proposed by EU, our country, enterprises,and industry associations should take active measures to deal with thissituation. Including asking reasonable demands to the world trade organization, make gooduse of green box policies, increase investment in agricultural infrastructure, improve thetechnological content of our products, increase the competitiveness of export products and soon. Considering the national level, our government should do better on the domesticcertification system, so we can catch up with international standards. At the same time, weshould strengthen the communication between we and the department of EU, make sure thatwe can deliver the timely transmission of information. For enterprises, they should pay moreattention to their own management, do not attend to the immediate interests, and adjust theirexport structure, to seek more trade channels, so we can disperse risks effectively. As industryassociations, they should to give full play to their special properties, make communication toour international trade partner, do well as the intermediary role, and study the policydocument of these country effectively, do well in collecting the informationand transmission. Finally, enterprises,industry associations, government should form acohesive force, in case to face all kinds of risks that may be encountered in foreign trade.