Trade Barriers and Countermeasures for Export of China’s Agricultural Products

At present, export of China’s agricultural products is faced with many trade barriers, especially technological barriers. Trade barriers include (1) technological barriers (such as quarantine and inspection barrier, identity certification/authentication barrier and labeling rules barrier); (2) trade remedy barrier; (3) other non-tariff barriers (NTB). Through positioning and analysis of trade barriers of China’s agricultural products, it is known that technological barriers should not be deemed unreasonable totally. Some barriers also have certain positive significance. To respond to trade barriers, it comes up with countermeasures and recommendations from the perspective of agricultural producers and government. Agricultural producers should actively improve product quality, abide by requirement of importers, and treat quarantine and inspection in a rational manner; government should supply information and issue early warning, assist domestic producers in responding to lawsuits, and take advantage of WTO platform to solve trade disputes.