Research On Main Export Restrictions And Its Welfare Effect Of Chinese Aquatic Product

Although the process of globalization is irreversible,some countries still try to advocate trade protectionism in order to protecting their own markets.At present,non-trade barriers are developing rapidly and will become a core part of trade restrictions instead of traditional trade barriers.At the same time,they will also be used as main ways of impeding free trade.As a part of the traditional food,Aquatic product is full of nutrition.Nowadays,higher requirements as a certain result of better economic condition for human.The demand for aquatic product is increasing,the trade of aquatic product is more important than before as a result.China is the largest exporter of aquatic product in the world,and its product have international competitiveness.Breaking through trade barriers could benefits Chinese related industries a lot.Japan,the United States of America,South Korea and the European Union are four main export destinations of Chinese aquatic product,while high level of TCI exists between these countries and China.However,they have much non-trade barriers and hard to deal with.For tariff policy,Japan and the European Union implement GSP on China’s aquatic product,while the United States and Korea give MFN.Through calculating the weighted average tariff level of four economies mentioned above in last decade,we can know that the European Union’s tariff level on China’s aquatic product is medium,for9-12%;Korea has a high level over 13%,;United States and Japan are relatively low,among 6-7%.In terms of non-tariff barriers,the main methods that Korea effectively restrict Chinese aquatic product are metal element detection,a variety of enterprise registration and information declaration ways,a series of voluntary labels;Japan focuses on strict food safety standards;EU emphasizes"traceability"and safety assurance during transportation;the United States has most complicated non-tariff system in the world which makes other countries hard to follow it perfectly.The paper use Trade Restriction Index to compare the level of restriction for Chinese Aquatic Product of different countries.The result shows that Korea has highest level of TRI while Japan and the United State is low.The TRI of Germany,France and Spain are close,much lower than Korea but higher than Japan and the United State,which means EU probably has medium level trade barrier system for Chinese aquatic product.As for detention,it is different with TRI result so that TRI can estimate the level of trade restriction,but it can’t include every situation or factors could influence the result imperfectly.After calculating,we get a conclusion that Japan,America and Korea rank 1^st to 3^rd in DWL,over 25 million dollars every year.However,European countries’DWL is far less than Japan,America and Korea,Spain lost most among which.