A Study On The Impact Of Technical Standards Barriers On China's Foreign Trade

Technical standard is a very important issue of Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT). Many issues of TBT are evolved from the technical standards. In recent years, the European Union, the United States and Japan have frequently enacted many complex, stringent technical standards and technical regulations. The problems of TBT caused by technical standards and technical standard barriers have become the biggest risk for China's export enterprises besides the risk of foreign exchange.The paper begins with the concepts of technical standard and Technical Barriers to Trade. Firstly, it describes some concepts and characteristics including technical regulations, technical standards, standards strategy, technical standards barriers. Secondly, it analyzes the reasons of the technical standards transforming into technical standards barriers in terms of the gap of technology, the gap of countries, different strategies of interest groups. Thirdly, it studies the volume and price control mechanisms of technical standards barriers on the trade using the model. It shows the companies are affected by technical standards barriers through the market access and market competitiveness. The paper also studies welfare effect on the trade using the model. In view that the European Union, the United States and Japan is China's largest export trading partner, it summarizes the technical standards and technical standards barriers of theirs. Fourthly, the paper chooses three industries which product are blocked because of technical standards barriers to study the impact of barriers on export combining the situation in recent years, with large amounts of data, charts. It approves that in recent years, some technical standards of the developed countries have hold back the export of our country, which is an effective trade barriers. Finally, it proposes some effective and feasible measures, such as setting up the warning mechanism, patent protection, international cooperation, in view of the trend of technical standards barriers and the specific situation in China.