Influnence of carbon motivated border tax adjustments on China's foreign trade and countermeasures

摘要

Developed countries put forward carbon motivated border tax adjustments (BTAs in brief), which is a new kind of trade barrier. As the second exporter in the world, China's export volume of high energy-consuming products has increased largely recently. And conditions of energy utilization efficiency and implicit carbon emission are not satisfied. To levy BTAs will worsen China's export environment, reduce export value of some products and change export structure. Therefore, China should take following measures: first, to utilize positively the WTO law mechanism, participate in constituting rules of international weather change and levitation of BTAs; Secondly, to cultivate new energy industries; Thirdly, to develop service industries in order to fasten industrial transconformation and updating; Fourthly, to conduct tests to levy BTAs in some selected high energy-consuming industries; Finally, to integrate supply chain to lower operating cost.