The Influence Of TBT To China's Rice Export From The Aspect Of Standard

Paddy rice is one of the important food crops of humankind, and it provides the living need of grain ration for the three billion people in the world. Rice is the important commodity and takes up a significant status in the international farm product market.China is in the range of the major rice export countries. Rice is the important commodity in our international trade of farm product as well as the main export product. The exports and imports of rice, exports in particular, is a crucial form of our country's participating in international cooperation and competition. It is also a major practice of the national macroeconomic control in crops. It serves the function of meeting the international demands, promoting the national crop product, expanding the sales market and eliminating the inventory. Thus, it play an active role in safeguarding the national interests.However, the main rice import and export countries in the international market has amended and perfected their own state standards as well as heighten the qualification standards and security and health index. The security and health index. of our country is lagging behind compared that of other countries since we are still following the standards made in 1986. This kind of disparity has caused the sustainable TBT(Technological barrier in trade) we suffered while exporting rice, which led to the economic cost of the rice planters and rice processing export enterprises. Hereby, some analysis and research is made in this thesis on the TBT and its negative impact on export aroused by the disparity in rice standards.First, this thesis deals with competitive power and the current situation of our country's rice in the international market. Through the analysis of the statistics, we can see that it follows a tide of increasing and decreasing. The total export volume first climbed up to 3.6million in 1998 gradually and then went down to 580,000 in 2005 in the recent 20years. Besides the reason of the change of state policies, a more important reason is that the import countries, especially Japan, has installed TBT.Through the analysis of the TBT we suffered in recent years, we can see both the contents and frequency has increased since2001. it is mainly caused by the disparity of technological standards. There exist gap in specification, quality, packing, pesticide residue, transgenic of rice standards between our country and that of other main import countries.Through detailed comparison of security and health index of China, major international organizations and main export and import countries, we find that the main differences lies in the standard items. They are the low level of standards in chromo plastid, mineral substance, bran packer. the exclusive item of broken rice, the differences in security and health standards such as pesticide residue, chemical pollution and heavy metal pollution as well as the lag of readjustment of standards.Last but not the least, on the basis of the comparison of different standards, this thesis suggests detailed practices to break the TBT in the role that government, enterprises and the whole industry should play. It also give some suggestions to the national China Inspection and Quarantine Bureau to strengthen the Inspection and Quarantine of the import rice and set our own TBT. Through such kind of efforts, we can hopefully increase the product and income of our farmers and safeguard our national crop stratedy.