Empirical Analysis And Countermeasure Research On Impacts Of Technical Barriers To Trade On China's Agriculture Export

Empirical Analysis and Countermeasure Research on Impacts of Technical Barriers to Trade on China's Agriculture ExportAlong with the international economic integration and liberalization of trade,the technical barriers to trade (TBT) has become one of the most important instruments to gain trade profits for countries with the decreasing of tariff barriers.Because of the gap between development of economy and level of technology in countries,standards and technical regulations that have once contributed to the development of international trade and the progress of human society now make a substantial block to international trade,furthermore, some developed countries use them as tools for trade protection. According to difference in the development level of economy and the level of technology from developed countries,developing countries always at a disadvantage in the face of TBT.Now day,most of the research in TBT has focused on the introduction of foreign TBT status and agreement on WTO/TBT,or the appropriate suggestion to reform measures,while updated empirical research is limited.The quantitative analysis to TBT can provide data supporting for policy design and dispute settlement.As one of traditional export products with comparative advantages in China,agriculture products bear the brunt of TBT.According to Department of Commerce investigation,our country,90％'s agriculture and food outlet enterprise are affected,lost every year about 9 billion U.S.dollar by abroad TBT.TBT becomes the maximal obstacle restricting our country agricultural exports.Above putting TBT into practice to China,European Union is 41％,Japan is 30％,USA is 24％,accounts for 95％.How to evaluate these impacts becomes people's focus.The author tries to summarize methods of quantifying TBT and put inventory-based approaches and gravity model into practice.The research results show that the stringent foreign technical standard is one of the obstacles to China's agriculture exports. At the end of the paper,the author gives some proper suggestions based on the analysis.