A Study On The WTO Regulations Of Cultural Trade

In recent years, with the revival of the Oriental culture and the vigorous development of cultural industries around the world, the United States in the cultural trade market's dominant position is in the event of a subtle change.And the object of cultural trade, cultural products and services has the characteristics of high added value, and thus the pursuit of economic benefits in culture trade and resistance to cultural invasion and cultural trade of growing countries cause many conflicts.So at the same time of promoting cultural trade freedom, people hope that they can use the multilateral coordination system to solve the potential conflicts between cultural trade and cultural diversity, and other rules of international law, and in this way, DSB in WTO is the one of the best choice. The WTO formally established in 1994, in Uruguay round WTO members achieved the SPS agreement, the TBT agreement, which made influence in early cultural trade, and trade issues related to culture.Later, the birth of GATT, GATS, TRIPS agreement and other documents, become the main method to adjust the field of international trade of cultural products and cultural service trade.And because of the collision with other principles of international law, the system makes the cultural trade disputes have to meet the complicated problems of politics, culture;At the same time when the WTO dispute settlement mechanism begin to show their attention of cultural diversity and the members' cultural safety, but never clarify the relationship between cultural diversity and trade liberty, in this way people begin to suspect whether the multilateral trade system has such an ability to solve the problem of culture and trade prospects.And that's one of the reasons of the birth of Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.Therefore, this article discusses all kinds of rules related to the culture under the WTO legal system combined with the case, to explore the specific meaning of the cultural trade of WTO legal system, to reveal the dialectical relations of culture and trade under the multilateral trading system, to clarify its applicable model. Finally, to find the solution of the dispute of cultural and trade in the WTO system, and to establish a complete and effective cultural trade legal system for China. This article also wants to try to provide the beneficial reference and method of the problem of culture and trade under the multilateral trading systems.