Research On The Problem Of Parallel Import In International Trade

Parallel imports widely exist in patent, trademark, copyright and other intellectual property fields. It's an important theoretical issues in the field of both international trade and international intellectual property rights' protection. Follow as the idea of this study, the author firstly makes a review of relevant studies in both domestic and foreign, and then makes an overview of the development and progress in research on parallel imports.The article intends to set aside previous studies focus on the theoretical arguments about the legality of parallel imports. From the economy angle, the author wants to study the relationships related to parallel imports of the game in the international trade, and analyses the influence between the parties with different interests. Then in accordance with China's actual conditions, relevant policy recommendations are given aimed at patent, trademark and copyright. In the study, the author uses the knowledge on economy, law and other fields. The author mainly does the theoretical analysis and evaluations on typical parallel imports cases. Begin with the introduction of recent typical parallel imports cases, this article introduces the concept, features and specific forms of parallel imports. It plans to use a series of economic theories to analyse the economic reasons of parallel imports. After grasping international principles, conventions and the development trend on parallel imports, the article uses a game analysis to analyse the relationship between relevant parties of parallel imports in both micro and macro levels, thus analyses the influence on parallel imports in the international trade among different interest groups. Finally, with the combination of our existing trade policy and balancing the various parters' short-term and long-term interests, the author proposes the policy recommendations to the three forms of intellectual properties based on these research results.From the external environment, with the global trade integration and liberalization process, reducing and cancelling unreasonable obstacles in trade is the general trend. This should includes not only general commodities but also intellectual property products. From the point of view of safeguarding the interests of our own countries, generally speaking, China is a market with low prices, so allowing parallel imports is in line with China's trade interests. Taking the international trade's overall trend of development into account, and the status is that China will be a market with low prices for a long time compared with most countries. With the principle that allowing parallel imports will turn comparative advantages into competitive advantages.Allowing parallel imports can protect the most vulnerable consumers' interes.It can stimulate international trade and make domestic market active.As for people who have intellectual property rights, it actually can use many other methods to protect their interests.In summary, the overall impact of allowing parallel imports has positive features in the short term. In the medium or long term, allowing parallel imports maybe have some negative impact on our country, but the overall impact is still to be positive.