China's foreign trade encounters unprecedented trade friction impact

Source: Internet
Author: User
Xinhua Guangzhou, July 14 (Xinhua News agency reporter Wang Yu) The spread and deepening of the global financial crisis, China's foreign trade industry has already been very serious trade friction to deal with the situation further deterioration.  According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Commerce, China's foreign trade industry and enterprises in the first half of this year have encountered 60 various "trade relief survey" initiatives from 15 countries and regions, involving an amount amounting to $8.267 billion. 14th in Guangzhou, "Guangdong Conference on International Trade Risk", Liu Danyang, deputy director of the Fair Trade Bureau of China's Ministry of Commerce, said that last year, Chinese enterprises encountered anti-dumping, countervailing, safeguard measures, special safeguard measures, such as the total amount of trade relief investigation involved in the sum of 6.2 billion U.S. dollars, "the number of trade frictions, the amount of money involved , which is known as unprecedented. "While the world's major economies are expressing their opposition to trade protectionism, some countries are quietly pushing for protectionist growth out of real-world economic considerations and the need to stimulate their economies in the short term."  "he said.  Liu Danyang analysis that China's foreign trade industry and enterprises in addition to the traditional "two anti-two" impact, but also encountered some countries to increase import tariffs, the implementation of green technology barriers, currency depreciation, hindering Cross-border investment and a series of new trade protection measures.  Legal experts here said that the financial crisis caused by a new wave of trade protectionism has presented new features and trends, not only to China's foreign trade enterprises caused damage, but also to varying degrees to delay the global economic recovery process. Guangdong Province Foreign Trade Department director Yaowen said, it is because of the new round of trade protectionism, this year, China's traditional exports of commodities such as shoes, toys, aluminum products, building ceramics, textiles and other products with comparative advantages by different countries launched by different trade barriers of investigation,  It has also hampered the recovery of global trade as it has created a huge constraining effect on China's export industries.  "As the world's second largest export market, Chinese companies have seen real cases this year show that, compared with the past, the new round of trade protectionism is showing a variety of measures, the implementation of regional expansion and more concealment," said Dr Yan, an Institute of Economic Research at the China Import and Export bank. "Some developed countries in the trade protection of the position and practice is completely contrary, some trade policy has become the national protection of their own industries and enterprises, to combat developing countries, especially in emerging market countries, the ' stick ' related industries."  "Liu Danyang said.  Guangdong Food Industry Research Institute and Production Enterprises encountered a "sucralose lawsuit" is such a typical case--the European and American multinationals, which occupy 95% of the international market, are trying to use intellectual property as an excuse to force emerging Chinese companies to withdraw completely from the US market through "337 surveys". Wang Sanyong, head of the Institute, said: "Our production process and the company's patented technology is not the same, High-tech independent intellectual property products, in order to maintain the status and image of Chinese national brands in the international market, we decided to sue, andThe fact of the Iron won the final victory.  "But at the same time as winning the lawsuit, the costs of the various lawsuits that have been paid are more than 20 million yuan and the full-year profit has been slashed." Customs statistics show that in the first half of this year, China's foreign trade imports and exports fell 23.5% year-on-year, the decline was rare for many years. Exports have been negative for 8 consecutive months since last November.  June, although the decline in imports and exports narrowed, but the external needs of shrinking short-term Neinian see fundamental improvement, China's foreign trade situation is still not optimistic. Wang Lei, a lawyer at Beijing High-peer law firm who has long engaged in disputes over international trade frictions, suggests that Chinese enterprises and industry associations need to continuously improve their ability to master and apply the WTO procedures and mechanisms, strengthen their collaboration and face international trade disputes more actively, With the support of government departments for their own fair international trade environment.

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