Study On Environment Issues In International Trade And China's Strategy Choices

With the economic globalization and international trade development, the environment problem in international trade has attracted a great deal of attention around the world and it has become one of focuses in the some international economic and political society.To harmonize the relationship between trade and environment has become an urgent task of the international society. China is the fastest country of trade and economic growth velocity the past few years, environmental protection wave also come into being the very great effect to our country foreign trade. Therefore, harmonizing the relationship between trade-development and environmental protection is an urgent task of Chinese government.On the basis of former research, employing the method of theoretical and empirical analysis, the author further analyzes the relationship between trade and environment. In terms of theory, internalization of environment costs is the fundamental way to harmonize trade and environment. But in reality, internalization of environment costs is very difficult because some problems exist. To solve this problem, international cooperation is necessary. The optimums shape of international cooperation is to establish World Environment Organization. Yet due to a variety of hardship in the actuality, it is not easy to establish the WEO in the near future. Hence, the harmonization needs to undertake through WTO in the very great degree. Finally, the author analyzes how foreign trade development and environmental protection influences each other, particularly environmental propose to distinguish reasonable trade-related measures from green trade barriers.On the basis of above analysis, the author gives suggestions to Chinese government on the sustainable development strategy and what principles to follow in international cooperation, hoping it can benefit Chinese economic sustainable development.