Zhejiang warning: trade friction unprecedented situation grim

Zhejiang warning: trade friction unprecedented situation grim.

In the global economy against the backdrop of the crisis, China's foreign trade growth this year is destined bumpy road, a large province of Zhejiang's foreign trade, especially. A few days ago, Zhejiang Province, the joint meeting of the Office of Technical Barriers to Trade (hereinafter referred to as "the joint meeting of the Office") announced that the global economic downturn as the trade protectionist forces to provide a breeding ground for recovery, foreign trade enterprises face the possibility of trade frictions increase, trade friction unprecedented situation, Zhejiang enterprises need to practice "strength." The Joint Director of the Office of Zhejiang Provincial Committee of Economy and information Zheng, deputy director of the party when the news release said that at present, countries around the world have been put forward all kinds of saving the economy, for the protection of domestic enterprises and markets, the United States, Japan, Europe and other Chinese The main export markets are increasing the technical barriers to trade, domestic export enterprises face greater than the threat of the past few years. This "threat" to enterprises in Zhejiang province has been particularly evident. According to the statistics bureau of Zhejiang, for example in 2008, Zhejiang Province, suffered a year from the United States, the European Union, Canada, India, Argentina and other countries and regions 18 of the 81 trade friction than the 28.6 percent increase in 2007, directly involved in the amount of 1.5 billion U.S. dollars; which 65 anti-dumping investigations, the 12 anti-subsidy, safeguard measures 2. What is more noteworthy is that since China's accession to the WTO, enterprises in Zhejiang Province met with international trade friction has been more and more - from the 2008 play in 2002, Zhejiang's foreign trade enterprises suffered the country's total trade friction of the total number of cases 1 / 3 more than the total amount involved in the case of the 1 / 4. Zhejiang's foreign trade showed an increase from last year trend of slowdown or even decline in the first quarter of this year, Zhejiang Province, the accumulated import and export value of 37.26 billion U.S. dollars, the same period last year (the same below) decreased 19.3%, of which exports 27.06 billion U.S. dollars, down 17.6 %; imports 10.2 billion U.S. dollars, down 23.6%. Cheng party concluded that the current technical barriers to trade with five characteristics: the contents of a more extensive; a more systematic structure; have legitimacy; more subtle and flexible way; the implementation of the unfairness. China REACH (Chemicals Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction) Center for Settlement of experts said Li Cong, which China's exports are facing the largest and most complex, the impact of technical barriers to trade most of EU REACH legislation, "because RECAH China and the EU 140 billion euros of trade will be subject to all affected and hurt. " "These features are marked on Technical Barriers to Trade is put together under the disguise of a legitimate 'green barriers', is a typical manifestation of trade protectionism." Zheng party said that the overall downturn in the global economy under the background of the trend of trade protectionism has been quite obvious, Zhejiang enterprises in-depth study should be the basis of WTO rules, trade barriers and respond to constantly improve the ability of self-protection; actively carry out research co-operation key point breakthrough technologies to speed up technological progress; Group taken, to build alliances, exhibitors will and other methods to develop new markets, further improve their management level. To tie in with the enterprise to break the technical barriers to trade one position Zheng, Zhejiang departments concerned will further strengthen the structure of enterprises and products to guide and improve the information platform, collect, collate, track the status of foreign technical trade barriers, in-depth analysis of foreign laws and regulations and Zhejiang the impact of the province of the trend, preference and symptoms of the problem and put forward countermeasures and suggestions