On the 5th, in an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai, who is visiting Paris, said that the trade protectionism tendency of developed countries in limiting the superior products of developing countries is detrimental to the healthy development of international trade.
In an exclusive interview, Bo Xilai expounded China's position on China-EU and Sino-US trade issues and introduced the results of his talks with European and American trade officials. During his visit to France, Bo Xilai met with French Prime Minister Raffarin and France’s minister-general for foreign trade, Los, and also had in-depth exchanges with important US and European officials such as Portman, the new trade representative of the United States, and Mandelson, the EU’s trade commissioner. There have been many consensuses on China-France, China-EU and China-US economic and trade issues.
Bo Xilai said that China and France are currently in an important period of economic development. The two countries have frequent high-level exchanges of visits and formed a comprehensive strategic partnership. Under the situation of good bilateral cooperation, his current visit to France focused on solving the problem of further strengthening the cooperation between SMEs in the two countries. He pointed out that although the growth rate of Sino-French trade has not been small in recent years, its total volume is still quite limited. The trade volume between the two countries last year was only US$17.6 billion, far lower than the trade volume between China and Germany of US$54.1 billion. The main reason is that the economic and trade cooperation between the two countries is dominated by large enterprises, and the cooperation between small and medium-sized enterprises is not close enough. One of the main purposes of his visit to the law is to form a situation of "a hundred flowers blossoming together" and promote the comprehensive development of bilateral economy and trade. He said that more than 80 Chinese entrepreneurs came to France with the delegation and jointly organized a small and medium-sized enterprise meeting with local entrepreneurs. France will also form three large delegations in July, September and November this year. China holds exhibitions and other activities that will further promote the exchanges between SMEs in the two countries.
Bo Xilai said that the talks with New American trade representative Portman were another key activity during his visit to France. The two sides had an in-depth exchange of views on the Doha Development Agenda, Sino-US trade relations and textiles. During the talks, Portman said that China plays an increasingly important role in the multilateral trading system. China and the United States can strengthen cooperation in various fields such as agriculture, non-agriculture and services. The United States hopes that the 16th China-US Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade will It will be held as soon as possible to promote progress in bilateral economic and trade cooperation.
Bo Xilai said that during his talks with Portman, he mainly explained the Chinese and American trade, intellectual property protection and textile exports. He believed that although China and the United States have many disputes in economic and trade, bilateral trade The fact that the amount has increased from $2.5 billion 26 years ago to $169.6 billion last year illustrates the complementarity and rationality of Sino-US trade. He stressed that the reasons for the US trade deficit in bilateral trade are multifaceted, including differences in statistics between the two sides, adjustment of the US industrial structure, and implementation of export controls. To calculate the economic benefits between China and the United States, we must not only look at the trade figures of goods, but also the extent to which each other owns the market of the other. Last year, American companies sold more than $75 billion in goods in the Chinese market. Another commodity of the same size was exported to China as a production base. This is the achievement of the US in terms of market share in addition to trade in goods.
Regarding the WTO's Doha Development Agenda, Bo Xilai pointed out that the Chinese government is responsible and open. However, China and Europe and the United States and other old WTO members are different. The current level of openness in Europe and the United States is a commitment made at the end of the Uruguay Round 10 years ago. Therefore, there is a large space for concessions in the Doha negotiations, and China’s commitment is It was not easy to fulfill these commitments three years ago. Despite this, China will still make efforts to advance the Doha Development Agenda.
Bo Xilai said that the two sides also talked about the issue of intellectual property protection. He stressed that the Chinese government attaches great importance to the protection of intellectual property rights. This is not because of any pressure and what to see, but the needs of China's own development. To this end, China has issued a new judicial interpretation, strengthened penalties for violations, and strengthened public awareness of intellectual property protection through a series of activities, and achieved remarkable results.
In an exclusive interview, Bo Xilai talked about the talks with EU Trade Commissioner Mandelson on the morning of the 5th. He said that Sino-European trade is currently at an important stage. The total trade volume between China and the EU has exceeded the trade volume between China and the United States. The EU has become China's largest trading partner. The EU has sold more high-tech products to China than the United States, so it is still the first in China. Big high-tech trading partner.
Bo Xilai said that the main topic of his talks with Mandelson that day was the textile issue. He said that China is a responsible trade power. China hopes to achieve steady growth in exports of textiles from Europe and the United States. For this purpose, it has adopted measures such as increasing export tariffs, implementing automatic export licenses, and lowering the export tax rebate rate. He believes that these measures are effective, and that no policy can produce significant results on the second day of publication. The EU should have enough patience to wait for these policies to work.
He said that the total trade volume between China and the EU reached 170 billion U.S. dollars last year, of which the textile trade volume was 12.5 billion U.S. dollars. This shows that the proportion of textiles in the total amount is quite limited. The Chinese government and enterprises are not pursuing a surplus in this respect. He pointed out that China's textile exports to the world in the first quarter of this year only increased by 19% compared with the same period of last year, while the growth rate to the EU was only 11%. As China adopted specific measures to curb excessive and excessive growth of textile exports, textile export growth has been increased. Greatly falling back.
Regarding the EU’s threat to use the WTO 242 to implement “special protection†measures for Chinese textiles, Bo Xilai believes that the conditions for the EU to launch the clause do not exist. He said that in the first three months of this year, some Chinese textile exports experienced rapid growth, mainly because some developed countries failed to gradually open their markets in accordance with the requirements of the WTO Textiles and Clothing Agreement in the past 10 years, while retaining 70% of quotas. To the last moment. He pointed out that developed countries have absolute competitive advantages in more than 90% of the fields, and textiles are competitive industries that are difficult for developing countries. However, developed countries advocate free trade for their superior products, but they are rare for developing countries. The advantage of products is limited, and this trade protectionism tends to undermine the healthy development of international trade.
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