Recently,relevant departments convened a meeting to discuss addressing standards and security barriers in international trade and investment.Participants included people from the political,business,and academic circles,including the Ministry of Commerce,the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology,the General Administration of Customs,the Council for the Promotion of International Trade,the State Grid,ZTE,General Technology,China Information and Communications Group,China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation,China Electronics Industrialization Standards Association,China Aviation Technology Research Institute,the Central Party School,the Academy of Social Sciences,Hunan University,and others.Lawyer Wang Lei from Gaopeng Law Firm was invited to attend and speak at this meeting.

Lawyer Wang Lei said that just as third-rate enterprises make products,second-rate enterprises make brands,and first-class enterprises make standards,China's export trade continues to encounter standard barriers,which are inevitable problems in the process of moving from a major trading country to a powerful trading country,reflecting the profound changes in China's export trade structure.On the issue of standards,as a major trading power,China should have a corresponding voice in the international arena,rather than being passively restricted.Secondly,no matter how the international trade pattern changes,and how regional and industrial sectoral trade agreements develop,the WTO,as a multilateral platform for global trade,will still play a leading role in multilateral trade.When faced with standard and safety trade barriers,Chinese enterprises should actively regulate multilateral rules through government channels.

Finally,Mr.Wang explained the provisions and rules on national security interests in the WTO,comprehensively introduced the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade(GATT)and all cases of national security barriers under the WTO rules over the past 70 years,made comments one by one,and expressed his own views from the dual perspectives of former trade officials and international trade lawyers.

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