Illuminates International Trade In Relation To The Animal Welfare Legislation

Animal welfare legislation protection is now widely discussed in Chinese academic circle a hot issue and the problem in the western developed countries has hundreds of years of research history. About the denotation and connotation of the animal welfare, Chinese scholars mainly introduced the western research mainly. These results including the concept of animal welfare, and people care about animal welfare motives, and animal welfare protection standard.Animal welfare is to point to the animal's body and mental health condition, the overwhelming majority of the world's countries and regions have formulated to protect animal welfare legislation. With the rapid development of the international trade, animal welfare issues like the environment problems, become the international trade order of words not open around the topic. By environmental problems and appear once the PPM standard began to widespread application in the animal welfare protection, the world trade organization for a number of trade convention these PPM standards provide legal basis, make the developed countries use the PPM standards set barriers to trade became both reasonable and legitimate.As for the animal welfare PPM standards provide the legal basis for the WTO agreement itself existed some shortage, such as concept is broad and vague, easy to expand to explain; some terms for the main principle regulation, lack of maneuverability; Member states to take on the unilateral PPM animal welfare trade measures without the regulation of scientific procedure, etc. Are these disadvantages resulted in PPM measures very easy in the WTO member countries to trigger a trade dispute?Our country is livestock production power, many of the livestock products need to develop market abroad. But because China's animal welfare system of the later start, in the practice of rare animal breeding enterprise with developed countries can breeding conditions of animal welfare PPM standard, which the country's animal source products export trade measures developed countries often encounter the restrictions affecting China's agricultural sustainable development of the economy. On the positive side, China's animal source products encounter unilateral PPM animal welfare measures, make our animal breeding enterprises to improve the animal welfare protection consciousness, but to achieve the developed countries of the need to improve our country the standard is PPM cultivation enterprise production costs, effect on our country's farm animals the international competition ability of the product, to the sustainable development of our economy form unfavorable influences.Facing the developed countries use the high standards of PPM trade measures on China's farm animal products export restrictions on the negative situation, our country should be actively, reverse this adverse situation. Our country should first make their animal welfare legislation and the adoption of animal welfare tag system, through the implementation of the system to improve the public welfare protection concepts to animals of understanding. Second, China should actively participate in international affairs, China to enhance the international organization in the position, strengthening our country in international trade rules in the formulation process of discourse, finally China with developing countries should pay attention to the trade cooperation, through multilateral trade agreement signed to influence the world trade organization's trade rules.