A Study On China-The Swiss Free-trade Agreements

Since the nineties of the last century, the regional integration of the world economy is booming, different countries and regions of the world have added to the regional economic cooperation. In the Americas, in the Andean and Central American common market, appeared in the North American Free Trade Area and other regional trade agreements; and Asia ASEAN Free trade area also appear. Visible, in the multilateral trade negotiations often suffer setbacks, more countries will put the regional trade priority status. Under the special international environment, China also began to gradually strengthen the construction of the bilateral trade agreements.China- Switzerland free trade agreement.is one of the many bilateral trade agreement, the agreement is China and continental Europe signed the first bilateral trade agreement, but also Chinese in recent years and foreign trade body reached the maximum range of tax reduction, many kinds of trade, one of the most extensive coverage, the highest level of agreement, Add many new rules into the agreement, to provide signed a good reference for the future. The template agreemen means that the first free trade zone in continental Europe China was established, also admitted that the Swiss Chinese full market economy status. Switzerland as the world’s most open economy, although the market is not large, but the agreement was great and with the world’s most open economies signed a bilateral trade agreement, means that the free market economy China has been recognized. In addition, Switzerland due to the special geographical location, located in the area, to some extent, China products Through Switzerland as the springboard, sales to the EU become may.The Agreement also has some deficiencies, such as the agreement lead to reduce China’s competitiveness in the field of foreign service trade; some rules is not clear, easy to form barriers to trade; dispute settlement mechanism is not provided with waits for improvement. The from the theory of bilateral FTA, the contents of the Sino Swiss bilateral FTA with the signing of the significance, The FTA existing problems and relevant measures to improve the four aspects were discussed.