To Create An External Environment For Textile Exports, China Will Strive To Eliminate Trade Barriers.

In the face of the weakening of external demand in China's exports, trade barriers are neither Chinese government nor enterprises want to see.

According to China's accession to the world trade organization working group report, the textile special measures will expire at the end of 2008, and the Sino US and Sino EU bilateral memorandum of understanding on textiles will also end.

Yesterday, the head of the foreign trade division of the Ministry of Commerce of China issued a speech on the issue of textile exports in 2009.

He said that under the current situation, in order to implement the spirit of the executive meeting of the State Council and maintain steady growth in exports of textile and other labor-intensive products, the Chinese government will further strengthen dialogue and communication with the countries concerned to ensure a smooth pition and create a favorable external environment for China's textile exports.

Customs statistics show that in the 1~9 months of this year, China's textile and clothing exports totaled $136 billion 940 million, an increase of 8.1% over the same period last year, an increase of 11.9 percentage points from the same period last year.

Among them, exports to the US amounted to US $19 billion 240 million, an increase of 1.4% over the same period last year, an increase of 28 percentage points over the same period last year.

In addition to creating an external environment for textile exports next year, the Chinese government is also striving for the us to lower its trade barriers in the light of the sluggish steel industry in the whole industry.

On the 23~24 day, the fourth Sino US steel dialogue was held in Beijing. The Chinese side admitted that China's iron and steel enterprises competed with their foreign counterparts in a fair market environment, not only without government subsidies, but also adopting a number of measures to control the export of steel.

China hopes that the US side will deepen its understanding of China's steel industry and avoid trade abuses for China's steel products, and ensure that the trials and rulings of relevant cases comply with the WTO rules.

China has always been worried about the trade barriers or the rise of trade barriers. Under the background of the global economic recession, trade barriers are likely to rise, which will more severely crack down on China's exports.

Last week, Rami, director general of WTO, met with Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming in Beijing, saying that the large-scale and complicated financial crisis will have an impact on Global trade and may lead to the rise of trade protectionism.

Therefore, we need more solid and stable multilateral trade system represented by WTO. He himself will continue to push forward the current round of Doha Round negotiations to reach agreement on agricultural and non-agricultural negotiation models before the end of the year.

An expert from Tsinghua University's national conditions research center said: "on the one hand, at present, Europe and the United States have not yet given China the market economy status, so they often initiate anti-dumping investigations. On the other hand, the recent increase in technical barriers in Europe and the United States will have an impact on the future export of Chinese related products, especially textiles."

Wen Jiabao, premier of the State Council of China, admitted that the growth rate of GDP in the first three quarters of this year was 9.9%, which was the first time in the past 6 years that it dropped to the single digit number in the past 25 years.

There are subjective regulatory factors, but we can not deny the changes in the world economy, especially the reduction of external demand has had an impact on China's economy.

This year, the Chinese government has demonstrated its position against trade protectionism on many occasions to safeguard the interests of Chinese exporters.

But in terms of trade barriers, there are many uncertainties in Europe and the United States.

A statement released last week by WTO said that the number of new anti-dumping investigations launched by the world increased by 39% in the first half of this year compared with the same period last year, and the new anti-dumping measures also increased by 6% over the same period last year.

China is still the main target for other members of WTO to launch anti-dumping investigations. 37 of the 85 new anti-dumping investigations launched in the first half of this year were directed against Chinese exports.

Jiang Zhe, vice president of the China Textiles Import and export chamber, said last month that the export volume of China's textile and garment industry has increased by more than 20% in 6 consecutive years, while the global textile and garment market has increased by only 5% annually.

Therefore, China may continue to encounter other countries' trade barriers.

A little bit of good news is that Catherine Ashton, who succeeded Mandelson as EU trade commissioner, has arrived.

She has recently indicated that it will not deviate from the core line of Mandelson's painstaking efforts to pursue free trade, maintain WTO authority and support globalization.