| In recent years, the edible fungus industry that develops rapidly has become a sunrise industry. It is playing an important role in increasing the income of farmers, flourishing the rural economy, safeguarding the agricultural ecological environment and earning the foreign exchange etc. China is not only the world's largest producer of edible fungus, but also is the world's largest exporter of edible fungus. However, China is not a power country in international market of edible fungus. This is mainly because under the background of the progressive liberalization of international trade, with the substantially reducing of traditional tariff and non-tariff trade barriers, TBT (technical barriers to trade) marked with technical standards and technical regulations are rapidly popular. Edible fungus, which has highly comparative advantage among agricultural products in China, due to the low level of production technology, the poor quality of products, the lack of standards in production and processing, are frequently restricted by TBT of importing countries, which leads huge loss for producers and exporters. Penetrating the current export situation of edible fungus industry, exploring the impact of TBT, researching effective measures to avoid the barriers are the main purpose of this paper.The paper, firstly, analyzed the current export situation of China's edible fungus from three aspects:the total export quantity and value, the structure of export markets and the products'varieties. On this basis, China was compared with other leading exporters in order to evaluate our country's position in the world market. Then, the paper analyzed the issue of TBT encountered in edible fungus exporting. The main contents include the concept and content of TBT, its characteristics and causes of emergence, the impact of TBT on China's edible fungus export quantities and the profits of exporters, as well as the effect of TBT on social welfare of importing countries'own. Based on this, the article takes the edible fungus trade between China and Japan as an example to analyze the impact of TBT from three levels. Finally, some effective policy suggestions were proposed respectively to avoid foreign countries'TBT in three aspects:government, industry associations, and subjects of edible fungus production and processing.Furthermore, the main conclusions of the full text were summarized, which are as follows:Firstly, since the new century, China's edible fungus export has grown rapidly, not only inflected in the total amount, but also in the varieties, and the market structure has also tended to diversification. China's edible fungus has strong competitiveness in the international market. However, because of the poor quality and the constant restrictions of foreign countries'TBT, China's edible fungus export is facing serious challenges. Secondly, theoretical analysis showed that the short-term improvement of foreign countries'TBT will results in the substantial reduction of China's edible fungus export and the continuous decline of exporters'profits. In addition, the implementation of TBT in importing countries will damage their total social welfare in most cases. Thirdly, empirical analysis showed that the increase in the number of Japan's pesticide residue standards items for edible fungus will bring great negative impacts on the export of China's mushroom. The increase of 1% in the number of pesticide residue limits items will results in the reduction of 0.2392% in China's edible fungus exports to Japan. |
