Analysis Of Strategies To Sanitary And Phytosanitary(SPS) Barriers Of Positive List System To China’s Tea Export

With China’s access to WTO, its tea market is gradually opened and there is a huge increase in the volume of tea trade with other nations. From the year of 2000 to 2006, Japan has continuously been the second big China’s tea export nation. However, this was changed because Japan introduced the Positive List System for Agricultural Chemical Residues in Foods(Positive List),the system most related to food residues in agricultural products measures in 2006. According to the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures(SPS Agreement)and the basis of the Positive List,thisthesis concludes that the measures in the Positive List is a kind of SPS Measures and poses the concept as “Positive List SPS Measures” and a judgment criterion for Positive List SPS barrier. Based on this and the trade data related to China’s tea exports to Japan from the year of 2000 to 2015, this thesis is supposed to prove that China’s tea export to Japan is negatively influenced by the Positive List, proving that the Positive List SPS measures form the trade barriers for China’s tea export to Japan. After that this thesis analyzes the reasons for SPS trade barriers’ formation from the perspective of the barriers elements of the Positive List measures per se and the weakness of China’s formulation and implementation of food residues in agricultural products system. At last, this thesis will categorize the SPS trade barriers as “Protective SPS Barriers” and “Natural SPS Barriers” according to different aims of Japan’s Positive List. At the same time, this thesis will initiate measures against these two kinds of barriers.