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    Breaking through green barriers and opening up international agricultural products market

    • Last Update: 2002-03-14
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    Introduction: 1.1 the meaning of green barriers is that with the increasing degree of global free trade, various tariff and non-tariff barriers, as well as trade subsidies, are gradually disappearing due to the restrictions of international trade treaties and agreements As a result, green protectionism rose in the major developed countries in the west, and spread to many emerging industrial countries These countries have a strong sense of environmental protection, and the formulation and implementation of various environmental standards are better than those of developing countries They make full use of the gap with developing countries in environmental protection, and construct various green barriers in the name of environmental protection, so as to maintain the competitiveness of their products and protect the domestic market from impact The so-called green barrier, also known as green protectionism, refers to the fact that the government of the importing country, on the basis of protecting the ecological environment, aims to restrict the import and trade protection, establishes strict environmental protection technical standards and product packaging requirements, establishes cumbersome inspection) certification and approval procedures, implements the environmental marking system and imposes severe environmental import taxes, etc through the promulgation of complex and diverse environmental protection laws and regulations, and establishes strict environmental protection technical standards and product packaging requirements The way of trade barriers to imported products The first reason is that green barriers make use of the general improvement of people's environmental awareness and the general enhancement of environmental consumption psychology The development of industry and the destruction of environment have affected the survival of human beings The concept of sustainable development has been generally recognized by the international community, reflected in the consumption behavior, is the rise of the green consumption wave The developed countries take advantage of this tide to introduce the protective measures in trade one after another, so as to limit the import and expand the export, and make the green barrier become a new trade barrier Secondly, due to the inconsistency of environmental protection standards in various countries, there is no unified standard at present In solving the problem of green disputes, the international community is brewing but has not issued a unified policy The developed countries make use of this vacuum to create green barriers and throw out a lot of green barriers first, so as to create the fact that "raw rice makes mature rice" This is very beneficial to the developed countries Green protection measures are easy to get the support of many countries or the international community, so as to win the international market, but it makes developing countries fall into the green trap, either in this track or out of the market 25L 1.3 the characteristics of green barrier 25L one of them is nominal rationality In the name of protecting the world's resources, environment and people's health, it implements trade restrictions and sanctions Modern human beings are more and more sensitive to environmental protection requirements People generally care about the quality of life, the ecological environment, and the growing psychology of environmental protection consumption More and more people agree with the green protection measures The green barrier is to catch everyone's psychology of caring about the ecology and put themselves on the legal outside Clothes Second, formal legitimacy Green barrier belongs to the category of non-tariff barrier It is different from other tariffs in that it is regulated and implemented by open legislation Some green protection measures are based on international and domestic open legislation Developed countries have promoted environmental protection legislation and provided legal support for green barriers The environmental protection committee, a subordinate Committee of WTO, is making international environmental protection standards Once adopted, it will have a great impact on developing countries Third, the universality of content It not only involves the regulations and restrictions on the production and sale of resources and environment and commodities related to human health, but also exerts great pressure on the industrial finished products that need to meet certain standards of safety, health and pollution prevention Therefore, it is very challenging for the foreign trade and economic development of developing countries Fourth, the concealment of protection Compared with other non-tariff barriers, such as import quota and license, green barriers not only hide from unreasonable distribution proportion, discrimination and other differences, but also are not easy to produce friction Moreover, various inspection standards are extremely complex, which often make it difficult for exporting countries to cope However, once we break through the green barriers, we will have a broad market in front of us According to relevant experts, the consumption of green food in the world is increasing by 20% every year In the next 10 years, the market value of green food will increase from the current 10 billion US dollars to 100 billion US dollars every year In the face of green barriers, in addition to using international treaties and regulations and invoking the environment and trade clauses in the "final document" of WTO to resist, the most effective and most beneficial way for China's long-term and sustainable economic development is to meet challenges with a positive attitude, develop green food industry, use green marketing tools, break green barriers, open up a broad international market, and stimulate To survive and develop in the fierce competition 2 Environmental conditions for green food development in China 2.1 Natural conditions for green food development 25L China has unique conditions and advantages for developing green food Both ecological environment and agricultural resources provide practical opportunities for it First of all, from the perspective of cultivated land resources, China's vast rural areas are far away from urban factories In many places, water quality, air and soil pollution are small, and pesticide residues are low, which provides favorable conditions for the development of green food Secondly, the vast mountainous area is an important resource for the development of green food The mountainous area accounts for 69% of the total land area in China The mountainous area has the unique advantage of developing green food There are many upper reaches of rivers in China's mountainous areas with backward or far away industries Water, soil and air are rarely polluted There are many kinds of animals and plants The population balance mechanism is complete The pests and diseases are relatively light, which can be controlled without chemical pesticides or only with biological pesticides Most of the products and livestock and poultry are of high quality and strong disease resistance The development of green food industry in mountainous areas can transform the advantages of natural resources and ecological environment into commodity and economic advantages 25l2.2 technical conditions for green food production 25L Since ancient times, there has been a habit of using farmyard manure in China Although in recent decades, fertilizers and pesticides have been widely used in high-yield agricultural areas in China, compared with developed countries, the degree of pollution is not serious There are many methods to prevent and control crop diseases and insect pests in the folk If the principle of Chinese herbal medicine is applied, supplemented by modern preparation technology, to produce plant insecticides and fungicides, it will become It is a major feature of biological control in China The production process of green food is mainly based on traditional agricultural cultivation methods, which are familiar to Chinese farmers and easy to accept and understand There are still many places in China, especially in mountainous areas and remote poverty-stricken areas, where farmers rarely or completely do not use chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and even many wild natural products without pollution These agricultural products, as long as their production process and management methods are certified, are actually green food 25l2.3 the social and environmental conditions for the development of green food First of all, in recent years, China's green concept has been gradually established, and many agricultural production and processing enterprises have begun to pay attention to the selection of those products or raw materials that meet the requirements of green food standards Strive to ensure that crop planting, livestock and poultry breeding, aquaculture and food processing conform to the production and operation procedures of green food, and then make the final product conform to the quality and health standards of green food formulated by the state Secondly, the end of the era of long-term shortage of agricultural products provides a loose macroeconomic environment for the development of green food At present, the living standard of Chinese people is moving forward from food and clothing to a well-off society, and the food consumption goal of residents is changing from food and clothing to delicacy, nutrition and health care At the same time, because the variety structure and quality structure of agricultural products can not meet the market demand, the problem of "difficult to sell", the problem of declining agricultural efficiency, the environmental pollution caused by the indiscriminate application of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and the problem of residual toxicity of agricultural products are increasingly prominent Market and environmental protection call for high-quality agricultural products It can be seen that the macro-economic environment for the development of green food already exists Thirdly, the government attaches great importance to the development of green food In recent years, China's agricultural system has implemented the ecological agriculture plan, and took the lead in implementing the green food project, proposed the development of green food, and standardized the definition of green food Since 1990, China has solved the necessary administrative organization and legal preconditions for the promotion of green food to the society It has successively formulated the environmental health law, the green food mark management method, and joined the "international alliance of Organic Agriculture Movement" At present, China Green Food Development Center has set up 37 entrusted management organizations of green food in 31 provinces, cities and autonomous regions, established 56 environmental monitoring organizations and environmental quality evaluation organizations of green food producing areas, and entrusted 9 food monitoring centers to be responsible for food hygiene inspection in national divisions In addition, China has abundant labor resources Green food industry is a labor-intensive industry, and China's rich labor resources can show great advantages and potential 3 The strategy and strategy of developing international agricultural products market in China 3.1 the development of green agriculture and the production and development of green agricultural products are the foundation of the development of the international green food market "Green agriculture" is a new agricultural technological revolution, which has the following characteristics: first, green agriculture is organic agriculture, including reasonable rotation, interplanting, intercropping, intensive cultivation and organic fertilizer application; second, green agriculture is a comprehensive planning and planting industry Third, green agriculture makes full use of the energy resources within the agricultural system, and pays attention to the protection and proliferation of natural resources, so that resources can be used sustainably; fourth, it pays attention to ecological construction, planting trees and forests in large quantities, improving the ecological environment, and making agricultural production have a virtuous cycle of ecosystem This is a prerequisite for the development of green food In order to bring our agricultural products into the international market, we must first produce green food that meets the requirements Therefore, we should give full play to the advantages of our natural resources, establish a batch of green food production bases, make use of the advantages of scientific and technological achievements, and realize the value-added of green agricultural processing We can develop local local local products into green food Most of the local products are still produced in front of the house and behind the house They need to be developed into commercial large-scale production and cultivated as export products We can cultivate new varieties with high yield and high value by strengthening scientific research, especially by applying high and new technology We can also make full use of foreign excellent varieties and first After "localization" of imported technology, new varieties for export will be cultivated 25L 3.2 strategy of specialization, scale and collectivization of main body of green food marketing 25L The low cost of green food in China is brought about by intensive investment in cheap labor, especially the part of green food exported is mostly produced sporadically by farmers With the rural industrialization and the transfer of rural labor, this advantage will be lost Moreover, the management system of farmers' families is difficult to change Small-scale decentralized management hinders the improvement of agricultural technology and management level, and is difficult to reduce I participated in international competition In order to occupy a place in the international market, in addition to relying on natural resources, it is necessary to adopt specialized production, large-scale and group management Because only when the enterprises unite, can they reduce the cost, improve the quality, enhance the strength, realize the scale benefit, expand the business scope, increase the market share, establish a good product and enterprise image, and improve the market competitiveness Support should be considered
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