New Challenge Of International Trade Protection To China'S Leather Export

The textile trade problem is the fuse of the Sino US trade deficit, which will further evolve into the restriction of the EU and other countries on China. ?

According to incomplete statistics, at present, the EU has formulated more than 100000 detailed technical standards for various imported products, restricting foreign goods from different levels, and even enforcing some signs, such as the "CE" promoted by the EU The logo, whether products produced by enterprises within the EU or products from other countries, must be affixed if they want to circulate freely in the EU market. For example, on September 11, 2002, the European Union officially announced its 2002 No. 61 ban on the use of 22 azo dyes such as tetraaminobiphenyl in its Official Gazette. In order to respond to the EU's ban and prevent the loss of export market, Chinese textile printing and dyeing enterprises were forced to import dyes produced by Bayer, Ciba, Sandoz and other companies in Germany, and these companies issued a letter of guarantee that their dyes were not banned azo dyes, and they could be put into production only after customers tested and approved the samples, which significantly increased the product cost. According to the statistics of the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement, as of February 2008, WTO A total of 6490 TBT (Technical Barriers to Trade) notifications have been issued, while China (since 2002) has issued 364 TBT notifications to foreign countries, including 140 notifications for textiles, leather and clothing, while China has only 5, which reflects that China's textiles and clothing have been subject to other countries' industrial standards and rules in the international market, and this passive situation will continue in the short term, The international trade protection situation faced by China's textile industry is very serious. ?

The impact of trade protection measures on the product market will inevitably be fed back to the factor market. Under the distorting influence of trade protection measures, the original combination of production factors may no longer have advantages or even be in obvious disadvantages under the new protection rules, which may lead to the unreasonable use of China's textile industry's comparative advantages, thus affecting the structural adjustment and industrial upgrading of China's textile industry. In addition, the return of restricted products to the domestic market will inevitably break the original domestic market equilibrium, and some products will have an "excess supply". This illusion will further induce enterprises to stop work and production, resulting in insufficient operation of the production system and idle personnel; On the other hand, the illusion of "surplus" will also affect the reallocation of industrial resources, and even the migration of original production factors may occur. From the perspective of the international transfer of the world textile industry, China has many comparative advantages in attracting international capital inflows. However, the restrictions and sanctions imposed by trade protection measures and uncertain export expectations largely offset the above comparative advantages, making many transnational capital transfer to developing countries such as Southeast Asia. On the surface, international investment transfer will only affect the expansion speed of China's textile industry scale and foreign processing capacity. In fact, transnational investment transfer also indicates that international capital is not conducive to the overall investment environment, foreign trade situation and export prospects of China's textile industry, which is bound to affect the normal production order, investment activities and business behavior, and ultimately affect the deep development of China's textile industry. According to the data of the Ministry of Commerce of China, in the first half of 2006, the textile exports of China's neighboring countries or regions to Europe and the United States increased sharply. From January to May of the same year, the textile imports from Hong Kong, China, and South Korea to the European Union increased by 234% and 150% respectively year on year. The substantial growth of China's textile exports to non quota regions such as Asia and Latin America also aroused the vigilance of local peers, and was The United States suspects illegal entrepot. Unreasonable industrial restructuring and chaotic trade order can only further worsen the situation of China's textile trade. ?

Although China has further reached an agreement with the EU on eight categories of export supervision measures in 2008, the Sino US textile trade, which is about to expire at the end of this year, still does not know where to go. Time and time again short-term arrangements did help ease trade frictions, but after all, they failed to bring a sunny spring to China's textile foreign trade. In 2007, China's net foreign exchange earnings from textiles and clothing amounted to US $156.879 billion, accounting for 59.83% of the country's trade surplus. Against this background, the textile trade problem naturally became the fuse of the Sino US trade deficit. The essence of curbing China's textile export growth is to transform the textile problem into the Sino US trade deficit, the appreciation of the RMB, and the fight against piracy We will further open up telecommunications services and medical equipment markets. It can be seen that the issue of textile trade has been related to many economic issues and national policies such as China's overall foreign trade policy, industrial policy and market opening, and deserves high attention from the industry and the government. ?