Green Trade Barriers Research Articles

Green Trade Barriers, Financial Support and Agricultural Exports

The study extracts information from 31 distinct Chinese territories over a decade, from 2012 to 2022, to analyze the correlation between green trade barriers, financial support, and the exports of agricultural produce. The research indicates that environmental trade barriers have a considerable adverse effect on the exports of agricultural goods; financial support can enhance regional agricultural exports; financial support plays a moderating role in the relationship between green trade barriers and regional agricultural exports; green innovation levels moderate the relationship between financial support and agricultural exports; the impact of green trade barriers on agricultural exports varies across different regions; and the influence of financial support on agricultural exports also exhibits regional heterogeneity.

Urban Green Innovation and the Export of Low‐Carbon Products by Firms in Emerging Markets: Evidence From Chinese Manufacturing Firms

ABSTRACTGiven the backdrop of global warming and the rise of more stringent green trade barriers, such as the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, we utilize data from firms in the world's largest emerging market to theoretically analyze and empirically test the effects of urban green innovation on the export of low‐carbon products by firms. First, urban green innovation significantly boosts the export of low‐carbon products by firms. Second, our analysis of the mechanisms shows that urban green innovation enhances firms' export of low‐carbon products by lowering production costs, easing internal financing constraints, and helping them navigate green trade barriers in host countries. Third, urban green innovation contributes simultaneously to reducing firms' energy consumption and pollution emissions, and it plays a significant role in expanding the export variety of low‐carbon products by firms, as well as increasing the number of host countries they serve. Our heterogeneity analysis reveals that the more differentiated the low‐carbon products, the greater the impact of urban green innovation. Moreover, urban green innovation has a more significant effect on promoting the export of low‐carbon products by non–state‐owned firms compared to state‐owned ones.

Green Trade Barriers in the Context of Globalization: Legal Challenges and Countermeasures

The acceleration of globalization has brought about the deepening of economic cooperation, but also triggered an urgent need for environmental protection. Green trade barriers, as a trade restriction measure in the name of environmental protection, have gradually become an important factor in international trade. Major countries and regions have widely implemented green trade barriers, which have made enterprises face complex trade obstacles and affected the international trade order and domestic industrial competitiveness. Although previous studies have explored the impact and implementation of green trade barriers, there are still certain research gaps regarding their legitimacy under the framework of international law, their actual effects on environmental protection, and their specific impacts on domestic industries. Studying the legitimacy of green trade barriers under the framework of international law will help to clarify their reasonable limits. Evaluating their actual effects on environmental protection and analyzing their impact on domestic industries will help provide a scientific basis for policy making and promote a win-win situation for the economy and the environment. This article conducts research from three aspects: current dilemma, in-depth analysis, and optimization path, to provide possible opinions and response strategies for solving the problem of green trade barriers.

Green Trade Barriers in Global Play: Legal Challenges and Strategic Opportunities for Developing Countries

This paper examines the challenges and strategic responses of developing countries to green trade barriers within the framework of global economic integration. Green trade barriers, primarily non-tariff measures established by developed countries for environmental protection, pose significant challenges to the international market entry of products from developing countries, affecting their economic growth and trade dynamics. This study explores how developing countries can leverage international environmental agreements, ISO 14000 standards, and legal reforms to mitigate these barriers. It emphasizes the importance of enhancing environmental standards, fostering international cooperation, and advocating for transparent legal frameworks to align with global environmental practices. The paper also discusses the role of organizations like APEC and the impact of agreements such as the Environmental Goods Agreement in harmonizing standards and reducing trade disputes. By adopting comprehensive strategies and embracing a shift towards a green economy, developing countries can not only overcome these barriers but also enhance their competitiveness in the global market.

Effect of green trade barriers on export enterprise green technological innovation from the perspective of the low-carbon city pilot policy

The low-carbon city pilot policy (LCCPP) is an important part of achieving “dual carbon” goals and promoting green technology innovation (GTI) in Chinese export enterprises. This study integrates Green Technical Barriers to Trade (GTBTs), LCCPP, and the GTI of exporting enterprises into a unified framework based on data from A-share market Chinese non-financial export enterprises from 2007 to 2021 and discusses how export enterprises should optimize green innovation resource structure with support from LCCPP to facilitate enterprise GTI when facing GTBTs. Several findings are uncovered: (1) GTBTs have a significant negative impact on the GTI of Chinese export enterprises, and the LCCPP significantly mitigates the negative impact of GTBTs on export enterprises’ GTI. (2) After distinguishing the heterogeneous characteristics of export enterprises, the moderating effect of the LCCPP becomes even more pronounced in non-state-owned enterprises, general trade enterprises, and enterprises whose export destinations are high-income countries. (3) Further exploration of the moderating effect of the LCCPP with different policy instruments and intensities is needed. We found the best moderating effect on export enterprises’ GTI under high policy intensity, and only market-based policy instruments had a significant moderating effect. These findings provide direction for policymakers expanding the pilot scope of low-carbon cities as well as theoretical support for realizing foreign trade growth for sustainable development.

SWOT Analysis and Strategy Research on the Impact of Green Trade Barriers on the Export of Wuyi Mountain Rock Tea

In the realm of globalization, green trade barriers have emerged as significant obstacles to the international export of Wuyi mountain rock tea from China. The progressively rigorous green trade barriers enacted by various nations, alongside challenges such as pesticide residues detected in Chinese Wuyi rock tea, have contributed to a notable increase in Wu yi mountain rock teas production expenses, thereby undermining its competitiveness in the global marketplace. This study employs a SWOT analysis framework to thoroughly assess the positioning of Wuyi tea exports, with the objective of formulating strategies to navigate green trade barriers and bolster global competitiveness. To accomplish this, the paper will initially address the current developmental status of Wuyi rock tea, followed by an examination of the eco-trade barriers instituted by key importing nations. Furthermore, through the calculation of competitive trade indices, it will investigate the waning competitiveness of Wuyi mountain rock tea as a result of these barriers. Lastly, potential solutions for overcoming the eco-trade challenges will be proposed by using the SWOT analysis methodology. As a result, the paper will offer innovative perspectives for the export advancement of Wuyi mountain rock tea.

The impact of green trade barriers on China’s photovoltaic products exports to ASEAN

In the context of the global push towards a green economy, this research investigates the impact of green trade barriers on the export trade volume of Chinese photovoltaic products to ASEAN from 2010 to 2021. The strong evidence indicates that green trade barriers have a positive effect on improving the export trade volume of Chinese photovoltaic products to ASEAN. This conclusion remains robust through multiple robustness tests, including excluding data from pandemic-affected years and the only developed country Singapore. Moreover, the impact of green trade barriers varies with exchange rate levels and language environments. In countries with higher exchange rates and countries with different official languages, the positive effect of green trade barriers on trade is more significant. In contrast, in countries with the same official language, green trade barriers have a negative effect on improving the trade volume. Additionally, higher levels of renewable energy consumption diminish the beneficial effect of TBT on photovoltaic trade, and CO2 emissions lessen the detrimental effect of TBT on photovoltaic trade. The findings provide valuable insights for policymakers, suggesting that align with international standards, provide differentiated technical assistance and adopt transparent trade rules when formulating green trade barriers to better support the competitiveness and export growth of Chinese photovoltaic products in the international market.

Research on the Influence of Green Trade Barriers on China's Export and Its Coping Strategies

With the increasing awareness of global protection, green trade barriers have gradually become a factor that cannot be ignored in international trade. This paper aims to discuss the impact of green trade barriers on China's exports, and put forward corresponding countermeasures. The paper first summarizes the definition, development process and main characteristics of green trade barriers, then analyzes their impact on China's export, and finally puts forward countermeasures from the two levels of government and enterprises.

China’s Sustainable Energy Transition Path to Low-Carbon Renewable Infrastructure Manufacturing under Green Trade Barriers

Facing green trade barriers from developed nations, particularly the EU, based on product carbon footprints, China’s renewable energy industries confront significant challenges in transitioning towards sustainability and low carbon emissions. This study delves into the carbon footprint of China’s renewable infrastructure, evaluating wind turbines, photovoltaic (PV) panels, and lithium batteries across varied decarbonization scenarios, emphasizing both production and international trade transportation. The initial findings for 2022 indicate baseline carbon footprints of 990,701 kg CO2-eq/MW for wind turbines, 2994.97 kg CO2-eq/kWp for PV panels, and 67.53 kg CO2-eq/kWh for batteries. Projections for 2050 suggest that decarbonization advancements could slash these footprints by up to 36.1% for wind turbines, 76.7% for PV panels, and 72.5% for batteries, closely mirroring the EU’s 2050 low-carbon benchmarks. Considerable carbon footprints from both domestic and international transportation have been quantified, underscoring the importance of logistic decarbonization. Based on these results, it is concluded that China’s steadfast commitment to a sustainable and climate-ambitious development path can provide globally competitive, low-carbon renewable infrastructure after 2030. The study advocates for a collaborative approach to product decarbonization across international trade, as opposed to erecting barriers, to effectively contribute to global climate objectives.

Intelligent Analysis of Import and Export in Green Trade Barrier Based on Big Data Analysis

Abstract With the rapid development of economic globalisation, global economic and trade activities are escalating. However, environmental problems and the emergence of green economy, a response to these problems, has led to the widespread introduction of green trade barriers. These barriers implicitly limit the development of trade activities. This paper focuses on the export difficulties caused by green trade barriers and proposes a method to quantify discrete product characteristics, explore the internal characteristics of commodities and decide optimally on intended export regions. Firstly, the discrete feature of products is quantified by quantitative transformation method. Secondly, the quantitative data are used to derive the best decision for export regions through support vector regression (SVR) method. Particle swarm optimisation is used in optimising SVR parameters to achieve high-precision decision making. Comparison with historical data from the industry park shows the identification accuracy of the optimised SVR model to be better than that of the traditional regression model. This finding presents a novel perspective for developing import and export under the background of green trade barriers.

The Impact of Green Trade Barriers on Chinese Tobacco Industry

The tobacco industry is an important pillar of the local economy, but the development and growth also need to bring the spirit of innovation into play, actively go abroad, open up international markets, and increase market share. However, the green trade barriers set by the international tobacco market have restricted Chinese tobacco enterprises from going out. This paper analyzes the importance of tobacco enterprises going worldwide and the advantages and disadvantages of green barriers. The study examines the necessity of green trade barriers from the perspective of world trade status and Chinas policy trend, and then clearly introduces the definition and manifestation of green trade barriers. The results show that green trade barriers promote the innovation of domestic tobacco technology to a certain extent, but also damage the international competitiveness of Chinas tobacco industry. This paper puts forward three countermeasures from three aspects. In tobacco cultivation, it is recommended to implement pest control at the start of planting. Enterprises should carry out innovation and reform in production and management processes. On the government side, it is recommended to provide protection and support to the tobacco industry.

Challenges Between the Green Trade Barriers and the WTO Treaties: Restrictions Faced by Developing Countries when Promoting Environment Friendly Products and the Way to Slove it

Challenges Between the Green Trade Barriers and the WTO Treaties: Restrictions Faced by Developing Countries when Promoting Environment Friendly Products and the Way to Slove it

Research in the Challenges Faced by Chinese Foreign Trade and Its Revelation

Over the past few years, a series of emergencies have again revived trade protectionism around the world, these events imposed huge problems and difficulties to global trade, which also negatively affected Chinas foreign trade market and related domestic industrial chains. Among them, the existence of green trade barriers and other non-tariff barriers not only increases the number of trade frictions but also puts forward higher technical and capital requirements for commodity processing. While the trend of trade protectionism also continues to influence the policies of some countries, adopting isolationism in Chinas foreign trade environment. Based on this situation, China should actively introduce professionals in various fields and try to promote the development of technology. Meanwhile, the government should also protect the rights of relevant parties or individuals through legal means by providing consultancy, perfecting trade legislation, and to encourage multi-party negotiation to better cope with various challenges in the field of foreign trade.

The Legal Root and Breakthrough of China's Green Trade Barrier in the Post-epidemic Era

The process of trade liberalization has been advancing in the context of economic globalization, and the technological field has also continued to develop. As a result, the development of trade will inevitably have a certain adverse impact on the environment. At the same time, people's demand for green consumption is increasing, which has led to the deepening of the impact of trade liberalization and environmental protection. In addition, the ravages of the COVID-19 epidemic in the past three years have made the contradictions more acute, green trade barriers have developed, and some countries have successively and continuously adopted different degrees of restrictive green trade measures for China's personnel and goods. Therefore, this paper aims to use legal normative analysis to study how to break through China's green trade barriers in the post-epidemic era. this paper also aims to use this to improve the relevant legal system in China and look for commonalities from the "Belt and Road". Meanwhileactively explore solutions and solutions are also important. In this way, the implementation of trade barriers and special trade freedom and environmental protection measures during the epidemic will be balanced. Finally, it provides suggestions for breaking through green trade barriers and improving relevant domestic legal systems in China's post-epidemic era.

Analysis of the impact of green trade barriers on the trade of industrial products between China and five Central Asian countries based on Lanczos-model reduced-order algorithm

With the development of economic globalization, the proportion of export trade in China is gradually increasing, and there has been a relatively close connection between the economies and trade of the five Central Asian countries and China, and because of their special geographical location, the connection between China and the five Central Asian countries is more frequent and there are certain connections in different industries. Different countries will certainly have different industrial priorities, so they need to be linked with each other. In the process of trade export, there will also be relevant policies appear, and green trade barriers are one of the policies that are closely linked with trade as one of them. Under the influence of green trade barriers, the trade of industrial goods between China and five Central Asian countries is also greatly affected, and this paper mainly uses Lanczos-model descending order algorithm to analyze its influence.

Environmental policy, green trade and sustainable development in Europe: New perspective on the Porter hypothesis

This study tests the validity of the Porter hypothesis through the examination of the joint effects of green trade and environmental policy stringency on sustainable development in the European Economic Area. To achieve the study objective, data for 14 countries within the region between 2003 and 2015 is analyzed using advanced panel estimation techniques – panel method of moments quantile and nonparametric time-varying coefficient panel models. The empirical analysis yields a number of interesting results. In confirmation of the Porter hypothesis, the interaction term is positive and significant. Specifically, a percentage increase in environmental policy stringency raises the positive impact of green trade on sustainable development by 0.005%. This interactive effect also ranges between 0.002% and 0.007% across quantiles. This indicates that the higher the level of sustainable development, the higher the moderating impact of environmental policy stringency on the relationship between green trade and sustainable development. This suggests that stringent policies are able to induce green technological shocks that cause efficiency improvements and innovation, which in turn promote sustainable development either directly or indirectly through their interactions with green trade. Moreover, the individual and synergistic impacts of environmental policy stringency and green trade are time-varying and sensitive to economic conditions. They become more pronounced in periods of major regional/global economic events. Responsible use of strict environmental policies is advocated, and the removal of green trade barriers is encouraged.

The Feasibility of Effectively Avoiding Green Trade Barriers

With the increasingly active global economic and trade activities, some international trade issues are gradually emerging. At the same time, some countries led by the United States vigorously promote unilateral trade, which has led to the emergence of traditional trade protectionism. Some developed countries, citing the protection of their own trade, set high standards and thresholds for imported products, Furthermore, green trade barriers have emerged in the process of international trade. This article explores the example of Heilongjiang exporting pork, explains and analyzes the connotation and characteristics of green trade barriers, and proposes some suggestions and countermeasures to deal with green trade barriers based on the current status of green trade barriers.

Analysis on the Export Situation of Suzhou Textile Industry

China has been famous for its textile industry since ancient times. Compared with other cities, the development of Suzhou's textile industry is far ahead. The development of Suzhou's textile industry started earlier and developed mature. After the reform and opening up, Suzhou is the first batch of textile export areas. Textile industry is the pillar industry of Suzhou, accounting for a large proportion in Suzhou's export trade. Taking Suzhou Textile as the research object, this paper first analyzes the export situation of Suzhou Textile products from three aspects: export overview, export regional distribution and main export product types. On the basis of analyzing the present situation, Suzhou textile has strong core competitiveness and insufficient production capacity. Green trade barriers increase; Independent innovation ability is not high, lack of brand awareness. Analyze the increase of production cost and low added value of products. Considering the problems, it is suggested to enhance the core competitiveness of products and improve production capacity. Reasonably avoid, establish and improve the early warning mechanism of green barrier. Improve brand awareness and independent innovation ability. Countermeasures and suggestions for the government to increase subsidies and improve the added value of products. Facing this situation, Suzhou municipal government, Suzhou Textile Industry and Suzhou textile enterprises need to actively respond and adjust their strategies in order to remain invincible in trade.

The impact of green trade barriers on agricultural green total factor productivity: Evidence from China and OECD countries

In the context of emphasizing on the development of green agriculture globally, this research examines the impact of green trade barriers on agricultural green total factor productivity (AGTFP) based on panel data from China and OECD countries from 2005 to 2019. The strong evidence shows that the green trade barriers have a positive effect on improving the country’s AGTFP. In addition, agricultural trade scale will reduce the impact of green trade barriers on AGTFP. The smaller the agricultural trade scale, the greater improvement effect of green trade barriers on AGTFP, otherwise the trade scale will inhibit it. Finally, the empirical evidence offers suggestions for government, policy makers, such as strengthen the monitoring and supervision of green trade barriers, optimize agricultural industry structure, actively integrate with international standards, and continuously improve agricultural technology and health standards.

The Impact of Green Trade Barriers on Chinese Tea Exports: A Gravity Model Study

The Impact of Green Trade Barriers on Chinese Tea Exports: A Gravity Model Study