Impact From Technical Barriers To Trade On Jiangsu's Export Trade And Countermeasures

Since 1990s, along with the trade liberalization, tariff has been continuously decreasing, some has even been canceled. The protective function of tariff gets weaker and weaker. By contrast with tariff, non-tariff is prevalent in many countries. Thereinto, technical barriers to trade become the major form in international trade barriers. Many countries protect their market by using technical measures. Because of economic and technical disparity, technical barriers to trade have been striking the export of agricultural, mechanical, textile, costume, light industrial, mineral, chemical and medicine products in Jiangsu province; some of them even lost overseas market. With the expansion of China's export scale, it is foreseeable that technical barriers to trade originated by developed countries are on the rise. For this reason, the relevant functional departments of Jiangsu province and exporting enterprises must realize this situation, impact and take countermeasures timely and effectively.This paper is divided into six parts: the first part is exordium, which introduces the significance, simple introduction to literature home and abroad, outline and methods. The second part firstly discusses the definition about technical barriers to trade, then differentiates it from technical measures, and introduces its character, forms and function mechanism. The third part firstly shows the status quo about Jiangsu's export, and then introduces the TBT that Jiangsu has encountered. Based on the third part, the fourth part firstly analyzes the influences of the technical barriers to Jiangsu's export trade. Negative influences include entering foreign markets more difficultly, obviously controlling import quantity after performing TBT, increasing cost, making export competition weaker, etc.. Positive influences contain upgrading industrial structure, updating technology, making enterprises produce in term of international standards, impelling enterprises to strengthen management and enhance quality. And then, in the new case about Jiangsu's laver, the Japanese relative measures have a great impact on Jiangsu's laver exported again. From this case, we can get some revelations. The fifth part is the countermeasures. I put forward some advice from the government, business association and enterprise to go beyond the foreign technical barriers to trade. The last one is the sum-up and expectation.