Foreign Technical Barriers To The Zhejiang Agriculture Trade

Along with the international economic integration and liberalization of trade, technical barriers to trade(TBT) has become one of the most important instruments to gain trade profits for countries with the decreasing of tariff and other non-tariff barriers. Because of the differences of development of economy and level of technology, 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 of economy and the level of technology from developed countries, developing countries are always at a disadvantage in the face of TBT.As one of traditional export products with comparative agriculture in Zhangjian, agriculture products bear the of TBT. Developed countries are rejecting more and more Chinese cheaper agriculture products on the excuse that our products may be unqualified according to their own standards. So the research in technical barriers to trade has become an urgent assignment and hotspot of non-tariff barriers study.Therefore the author starts research with manifestation, characteristic and development tendency of TBT, Then the author summarizes the TBT status in our agriculture trade and introduces the Gravity Model to analyze the impact on the MRLStandards in the aquatic product export based on previous analysis. The results of empirical study show that the foreign MRL standards have negative impact on the aquatic product export but the MRL standards in China can increase export and the shared standards in two parties have positive impact on export. At last, the author provides some advices to tackle the TBT according to the above research.