The Research Of Service Trade Protection Under The Condition Of The Open Economy

With the sharp scientific technological development and economic globalization, service industry has become the important impetus to world economy and international trade. China attend the signature of General Agreement of Trade in Services(GATS). We delivered the schedule in accordance with commitments made in WTO. Undoubtedly, China made its great efforts to impel service trade liberalization. Until then, China's service industry will enter into a new era.Service trade liberalization is a knife with double blades. It brings a country the opportunities and also the challenges. Just for the purpose of eluding the risks of service trade liberalization and because of the service industry's particularity and sensitivity, almost every country carried out the protection on their service trade. Our domestic service industry lags behind other industry and cannot compete with other country. Faced with the trend of service trade liberalization, how to make use of its advantages and elude the risks is the problem need to think not only for our domestic service providers but also for our government.This paper starts from introducing our service trade's status quo. Firstly, it reviews the domestic and overseas literature on service trade protection. Then it explains the connotation and reason of protection on service trade. Secondly, it takes service trade barriers as the exterior form of protection and illustrates their definition and classification in detail. And it also introduces several measurement methods of service trade barriers to measure the extent of protection. In the third part, this paper chooses the frequency ratio method to measure the EU and China's service trade commitment schedule in WTO and concludes the common strategy in protection of two countries. In the last part, the paper emphasizes the protection on China's trade in services. With a view to China's service trade competition power and other countries' practice, carrying out protection on China's service trade is imperative and feasible. Therefore, taking into account the international criterion and domestic rules of law, the paper also provides principles in our country's protection on service trade and corresponding suggestions to domestic service industry provider and government policymaker.