The Research On Agricultural TBT And Its Countermeasures

Along with speeding up of course of economic globalization and trade liberalization, the traditional trade tariff is weakening while technical barrier to trade (TBT) is becoming more and more prevalent. Some developed countries take the advantage of their advanced technology, management and environmental protection, continually set up all kinds of TBT under the name of technical regulations, quality standards and evaluation program to protect domestic trade and consumers. In recent years, there are many cases that China's agricultural products with traditional export advantages were restricted by irrational TBT, some even lost all their market shares in international competition.Moreover, because of the lack of sound and comprehensive system of technical barriers to trade, a lot of goods that do not meet certain standards are poured into China. The products have brought harms to our consumer safety, the environment and related industries.However, from another perspective, even foreign technical barriers to trade has a negative impact on China's agricultural trade, they also cause innovations in national technical regulations, technological upgrading and promote the coordinated development of economy and environment.The thesis is trying to provide some theory analysis and policy suggestions to help the governments and enterprises to avoid and surpass TBT, at the same time set up China's own TBT with unique Chinese characteristics to protect agricultural production and farmer's benefits At last, several practical countermeasures for both short term objectives and long term plans are put forward to guarantee China's benefits in international trade, to get the win-win situation in which farmer's income increased while company's efficiency improved.This article was split into five chapters altogether. The first chapter introduced the concept, characteristics of TBT and analyzed the"Agreement on Technical barriers To Trade", the"Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures"The second chapter analyzed the economic effect of TBT by the way of some economic models.The third chapter analyzed the TBT of the developed countriesThe fourth chapter introduced the TBT that China meet.The fifth chapter introduced the strategies which we should adopt and paid much attention to the importance of establish our own TBT system.