Influences of Carbon Tariffs on Chinese Export and Countermeasures

Carbon tariffs are new green trade barriers put forward by the United States to be imposed on energy-intensive products imported.It seems that the purpose of introducing carbon tariffs is to reduce global warming effects and to guarantee fair competition in global business transactions.But the fact is that the purpose of carbon tariffs is to dominate the speech right and contain the developing countries including China.Carbon tariffs influence China's export-oriented businesses in two ways.First,it will make the cost of production become bigger which will in turn reduce exportation and make the export countries suffer from welfare losses.Second,carbon tariffs' regulations will force export-oriented enterprises to take reformation and enhance their efficiency and make them become more competitive in the long run.However,in the short run,as China does not have the prerequisite for Porter Hypothesis,carbon tariffs will lead to rising costs and declining competitiveness of export products.This paper systematically analyzes composition of China's export and direction of China's export,points out that the introduction of carbon tariffs will impose a severe challenge on China's exportation in the present and better the market structure,the industrial structure and export structure in the long run.To deal with this situation,China's government should take countermeasures such as taking environment diplomacy,imposing gradually carbon tax,and constructing green manufacturing system,etc.