1. More and more technical barriers to trade (such as national standards regulations, technical regulations, conformity assessment procedures, etc.) impede the free development of international trade, is not conducive to the free flow of world resources and the optimal allocation, and with economic globalization, trade liberalization of the social development of the trend of the opposite. This is the main basis of trade liberalism against technical barriers to trade. For example, most electronic and electrical products are required to meet the standards of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and other relevant organizations; the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires textiles to be labeled with ingredients and protection labels, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) requires that textile fire-resistant performance meets the relevant standards; and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for the import of food, drugs, health care products, and other products. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for the management and monitoring of imported food, drugs, health care products, cosmetics, detergents, medical equipment, the purity of the goods and labels and other stringent requirements, in the commodities will be sampling; the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) also requires that pork, poultry meat must undergo strict sterilization procedures. These a series of standard requirements and testing measures will undoubtedly bring a lot of inconvenience to the international trade, and at the same time increase the cost of imported goods.
2. A long period of time, the distribution of international trade benefits will be further tilted to the developed countries. In the current international standard system, the standard setter is basically developed countries, most of the developing countries are passive recipients of the standard. And developed countries from their own interests and technical level of standards set by many developing countries are difficult to achieve. Therefore, developed countries often use technical standards to set up trade barriers or even launch technical trade wars to protect their international trade interests, so as to continue to control developing countries and occupy a dominant position in international trade. For example, China's frozen chicken since August 1996 by the European Union did not pass quarantine as the reason for the ban on entry, until May 2001 on the Shanghai and Shandong a number of areas of the 14 enterprises to open the ban on the annual loss of nearly 100 million U.S. dollars; from July 2001, the European Union on imports of tea to make the new provisions of the maximum permissible residue of pesticides in some products for the original standard of only 1/100 -1/200 (in fact, according to the original standards for the production of tea has no harm to the human body), such as not taking effective measures, China's tea will be forced to withdraw from the EU market. According to the relevant reports, China in 1999 only by foreign technical regulations, standards and conformity assessment procedures to reduce exports of at least 50 billion U.S. dollars. Nowadays, there are often "technical standards trade wars" among developed countries, nominally for the protection of the environment or people's health and life safety, but in fact, their greater purpose is to enable the country's traders to gain more benefits in international trade. According to another statistic, the number of patents held by western developed countries in key technological fields such as life sciences and biotechnology, information technology, new materials and so on, accounts for about 90% of the total number of patents in the world, while developing countries, including China, hold only about 10%. Such a large technological gap is unlikely to be narrowed in the short term. Therefore, for a long time, developing countries will be in an increasingly unfavorable position in the international trade pattern. 1. Environmental barriers and green standards objectively promote the implementation of sustainable development. Economic construction and environmental protection are a pair of contradictions encountered in the development process of any country. However, immediate economic interests often make people choose the road of economic construction by destroying the environment. Especially in some developing countries, due to limited funds, they simply cannot afford to take care of environmental protection. The practice of hunting by destroying forests and fishing by depleting the ponds has led to a drastic deterioration of the earth's environment. Even in China, although environmental protection has long been as a national policy, but according to incomplete statistics, in 1998, the national ecological environment affects the export amount of products amounted to 8.6 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for the year's total exports of 6.2%; in 2000, the export of more polluting products (such as dyestuffs, leather products, dyeing and printing, pulp, etc.) amounted to 11 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for the year's export amount of 5.1 percent. The implementation of green standards will force Chinese enterprises to reduce environmental pollution in the production process and adopt green production systems to produce green products. This will objectively promote the implementation of China's sustainable development strategy. Similarly, to a certain extent, it will also promote the development of the world economy and the protection of the world's environment tends to harmonize and balance, and is conducive to the development of the world economy while protecting the ecological environment of the entire planet.
2. Increasing quarantine standards and packaging design standards, prompting countries to continue to improve the quality of the country's products and health and safety performance, which has a positive effect on human life safety and health. Especially now the world's animal and plant epidemics (such as foot-and-mouth disease, mad cow disease, wheat dwarf star black spike disease, corn bacterial blight, etc.) from time to time outbreaks, coupled with the safety of genetically modified products (GMO) is still unable to scientifically determine, so in the international trade, the development of countries related to the quarantine standards and strict implementation is very necessary.