The Study On Barriers To Trade For Tuna Products And Countermeasures

Every year about 42% tuna captured were involved in the international trade, which may bring great impact to some country’s tuna industry. Furthermore, for the sustainable development of tuna fishery and eliminating illegal, unreported, unregulated Fishing, market related measures(MRMs) and Port state measures were proposed, which appeared in different international treaty, in which MRMs has been became the important resource conservation measures for RFMO. Thus, The trade measures under the framework of the WTO law for the purpose of Protect their tuna industry and MRMs, port state measures for the goal of tuna resource conservation, have become barriers to trade. The barriers to form are including trade-related RFMO resource conservation measures, measures adopted by country, tariff barriers, technical barriers to trade, industry barrier, which has been used by major tuna market countries. Through researching articles of law about barriers to trade just mentioned, we can found the relation and distinction between MRMs and WTO trade measures, which played an important role in breaking the barriers to tuna trade.Although China is tuna fishing power and tuna fishery has developed rapidly, China’s tuna trade rely on overseas’ market and suffer low market share overseas. Domestic market prospect for tuna is great, but market has not been established.barriers to trade has become the major factor to impede our tuna product being occupied throughout overseas and domestic market. Barriers to overseas’ tuna trade contained quota lake, discriminatory barriers to trade, fishing boats and processor barriers to certification, industry barrier. Barriers to domestic tuna trade contained high price for tuna product, low quality of Sashimi, single channel marketing for tuna product. To solve the barriers, this paper analyzed the causes of the formation of barriers to tuna trade among China’s enterprise and look for concerned international regulations and standards and tuna industry actual situation. Methods mainly include the following three aspects:(1) Enterprises actively use international law to maintain their own rights and interests.(2) The government provides technical support and financial assistance in the aspect of technical barriers to trade.(3) Corporate decision makers should change market concept and actively cope with barriers. Among this, decision makers’ concept is the key, government aid and law citing is auxiliary.Last, according to some problem about our country’s Ocean fisheries development, this paper proposed that strengthening China’s fishing-boat regulation, removing IUU fishing, actual fisheries data delivered, which is important for our country’s performing resource maintenance obligations. Strengthening the power for performing resource maintenance obligations will help our country obtain the right of discourse in RFMOs and get more tuna fishing quotas.