Green Trade Barriers and China's Foreign Trade: Current Research Status and Future Prospects

During the past few decades, China's economy experienced rapid expansion, foreign trade between China and other countries has also increased. However, numerous countries implement trade barriers to safeguard their domestic industries, and the adoption of green trade barrier policies continues to impede the sustainable development of China's international commerce. This article summarizes the definition, characteristics, and main forms of green trade barriers by sorting out existing documents, and finds that the characteristics mainly include nominal rationality, formal legality, etc., and the main forms are green technology guidelines, green tariff systems, etc. By analyzing the mainstream global literature on how green trade restrictions affect China's international commerce, it is evident that there are two distinct aspects to the way that green trade barriers affect China's international trade. In the final section, this paper organizes the current measures to address the obstacles to green trade and summarizes its future research trends are mainly focused on two aspects: increasing research on green trade barrier policies in nations in Asia and deepening research on its new situation.