China suffered 64 trade frictions last year

Commercial News (Wang Fang) the two-day 2011 national Trade and Promotion Conference was opened yesterday in Beijing, Vice minister of Commerce Zhongshan said at the meeting last year, China suffered trade friction 64, the amount involved about 7 billion U.S. dollars. Mr. Zhong pointed out at the meeting that China is still an easily targeted country for trade protection, and the trade frictions suffered by China last year came not only from developed economies such as Europe and the United States, but also from developing countries such as Brazil, Argentina and India, both for traditional industries and for High-tech industries.　　It is reported that last September, China's data card encountered the EU countervailing, anti-dumping and safeguard measures triple survey, the amount of money involved amounted to 4.1 billion U.S. dollars; The United States is to extend protectionist tentacles to China's clean energy sector, launched a "301 survey." Mr. Zhong said that China should continue to maintain stable growth of foreign trade. Industry analysts believe that this year, China will face a more challenging foreign trade environment, such as the recovery of slow-moving advanced economies to increase employment rate while expanding exports to reduce the size of imports, and trade protectionism is its habitual means, the rapid development of China's economy will pose a threat to the competitiveness of other economies,　　Trade protectionism can temporarily evade the threat, the growth of foreign trade at the same time, our country encounter the friction will increase synchronously. The general administration of Customs data shows that last year our exports amounted to 1,577,930,000,000 U.S. dollars.