With the rapid development of economic integration, the increasing number of multilateral agreements and regional agreements, the scale of trade between economies has been expanded. Barriers and obstacles to trade activities among economies have received further attention, and trade facilitation has become the current international trade point. In order to meet the objective requirements and inevitable choices of the new trend of economic globalization, China has accelerated the implementation of the free trade zone strategy. At present, China has signed 16 Free Trade Agreements involving 24 countries and regions. This paper examines the terms of trade facilitation on trade facilitation mainly from a broad perspective which including a number of relevant provisions. We think that the characteristics of China's trade facilitation under the FTA mainly include: the increase in terms and scope of trade facilitation in the FTA; the content of trade facilitation in different FTAs is different; the contribution of trade facilitation measures in FTAs is obvious. At present, the trade facilitation measures on transparency in the FTA signed by China are relatively complete, trade facilitation measures on fees and procedures need to be improved, and trade facilitation measures on transportation are lacking. Compared with the EU, China’s trade facilitation system under the FTA is lacking in customs-related cooperation, information exchange and facilitation, pre-shipment inspection, customs agents, authorization. China is similar to the EU when it stipulates related provisions, and most of them stipulate one or more objectives in non-mandatory terms. Both of them are lack of specific, objective and accurate metrics. Tt is found that the wording of different agreements signed by various countries and the United States is similar. In comparison with the United States, China signs trade agreements with different countries or regions by different words. Tthe agreements signed by the United States are more detailed than the ones signed by China, and the level of commitments is higher. The United States and China have differences in the subject of trade facilitation rules. The United States attaches particular importance to the issue of trade security, while China pays more attention to the development of trade facilitation itself. In order to improve the level of China's trade facilitation under the FTA, we should further improve the institutional design of trade facilitation and continuously refine the rules and requirements for trade facilitation system. We need to strengthen the setting of terms and conditions regarding technical assistance and capacity building, and set special and differential treatment. According to the actual conditions of the parties to the agreement, we should develop better and more specific obligations and rights. At the same time, we can increase regulatory regulations to strengthen the system binding force and the cooperation between customs and supervision in different countries. In the future, we need to balance the trade facilitation and the trade security
전북대학교 동북아법연구소 [Institute for North-East Asian Law]
설립연도
2007
분야
사회과학>법학
소개
전북대학교 동북아법연구소는 동북아법에 관한 국내외의 이론과 실제를 연구하고 교육하며, 그 결과를 발표하여 동북아법에 대한 이해의 증진과 동북아의 법률문화발전에 기여하기 위한 목적으로 2006년 7월 설립되었다.
서해안시대의 중심지역을 표방한 전라북도의 지리적 여건과 동북아시아의 여러 국가와의 인적 물적 교류가 확대되면서 그에 따른 여러 가지 법률문제가 발생됨에 따라 동북아시아의 지역적 특성을 고려한 법제도의 연구와 이들 국가와 거래하는 전북지역 자치단체와 기업에 대한 실질적 교육의 필요성이 대두되었다.
이러한 요청에 따라 법제도의 연구와 교육을 담당할 기관으로 전북지역 거점국립대학인 전북대학교가 동북아법연구소를 설립하게 되었고 전북 지방자치단체와 기업에 대한 교육과 자문프로그램을 운영하고 있다.