Study On WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement

Since the 21 century,the global trade has developed fast and gradually stepped into the past-tariff period,with the continuing decreasing of this traditional trade barrier,now the untraditional trade barrier has become the main factor to weaken the development of global trade.Untraditional trade barrier contains Import and export quota,license,exchange control,complicated custom procedure,and technical trade barriers such as taking extremely high standers in the sanity safety quantity and cargo container.Trade facilitation is more concentrate in custom and relative import & export administrative procedure,by cutting the red-tape,to minimize the influence of administrative procedure,increase the efficiency of clearance and transport,cut the cost of trade,and then improve the development of international trade.Holding this purpose,WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement(TFA)was born and officially came into force in 2017,22 nd,January.As the first achievement in Doha Round’s decades’ negotiation and the newest member of WTO’s resolution system,TFA is not only with great meaning in international law,but also the common choice of every member country to protect national economic interest and the trade safety,besides,it’s the trend of custom development,thus makes it the essential position in the field of international trade.By using historical analysis,theoretical analysis,and case study,this thesis’ s research on TFA can be departed into three parts:The first part is an introduction about trade facilitation and a general research on TFA,by using the introducing to research on the background of TFA’s building and its procedure,as well as its content;then illuminates TFA’s characteristic about balancing North-South interest,the exemption of WTO’s dispute settlement procedure,and the guiding position of custom;then clarified TFA’s essential meaning to WTO and global trade.The second part is theoretical analysis,based on the international political economy theory,this thesis analyses the rationality and essentiality during the negotiation process of TFA,as well as the significate meaning in international treaty law.The next section is deep inside the detail of TFA and clarifies the relationship of rights and obligations.The last section is about the location of TFA in the whole WTO law system.The third part is practice research,aiming at the implement of TFA and its influence to china and how to deal with it.The implement includes soft infrastructure and procedural requirements,and the latter need more efforts from the WTO members to meet the demand.At present,china has already confirmed the content of A section commitments and need to complete relative reform during 2 year’s grace period form now,but with specific practice there are still some uncomprehensive factors and imperfection fields.Thus in this part I’ll use comparative study,reference to foreign customs and important international organizations,combine their successful experience and research achievements to make some suggestions,furthermore,to make prediction about China’s next commitment content and look forward to its implementation.