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The main reason why the No. 1 leader is willing to visit New Zealand in person this time is that there has been gratifying progress in the negotiations between the two countries, and the New Zealand government has indicated that it is willing to recognize China's market economy status at an appropriate time.

This information makes the high-level people in China feel very important, just like when New China was founded, Britain, as a very influential country in Western countries, first recognized the status of New China, if New Zealand, which is also one of the developed countries in the West, can recognize China's market economy status, it will open a gap for China in the unbreakable camp of developed countries.

If the gap is opened, then the ensuing opportunities for the allies created by the US government to collapse in the countries that are scrambling to establish deeper economic and trade cooperation with China, lured by huge profits.

Considering this situation, there would be a reasonable explanation for the fact that Chief No. 1 was in such a hurry to visit New Zealand.

Although China has made great achievements in reform, opening up and market economy construction, the European Union, the United States and other world economic giants have not recognized China's market economy status.

Last year, the European Union's trade policy towards China began to make some changes, announcing that it would remove China from the list of non-market economy countries, but still treat China as a market transition economy, thus allowing Chinese companies to defend their market economy status on a case-by-case basis and obtain market economy treatment on a case-by-case basis.

In fact, since China's market economy status is not recognized by the EU, when the EU determines whether Chinese goods are dumped in China at a price lower than cost, it does not refer to the price of a certain type of product in China, but to the price of similar products in other similar countries.

Due to the great incomparability between the selected third countries and China's specific conditions, the EU has a greater degree of arbitrariness and unfairness in its anti-dumping investigation against China. This has significantly affected the ability of Chinese companies to defend themselves against anti-dumping charges.

To give a simple example, before 1993, China exported more than 1 million units of color televisions to the EU a year, but in 1993 the European Union began to conduct an antidumping investigation into China's color televisions, and in the course of the investigation, the EU selected Singapore as the reference country, and Singapore's labor costs were more than 20 times that of China.

Under unfair reference, China color TV was judged to be dumping.

A few years later, Chinese color TVs lost all their market share in the EU.

As a result, the issue of market economy status has become an obstacle for Chinese enterprises to deal with antidumping charges.

In recent years, China-EU trade relations have become rapidly closer, and the total trade volume between China and the EU has not only risen, but the EU has become China's second largest trading partner. But at the same time, China has also become the hardest hit area of the EU's anti-dumping.

According to the figures provided by the Ministry of Commerce, since China suffered its first antidumping case in 1979, the EU has instituted nearly 100 antidumping investigations against China, ranking second only to the United States in the total number of cases filed against China, affecting China's exports of about $4 billion, and the products involved in the cases basically cover all areas of exports to Europe.

As with the lifting of the ban on arms sales to China, the EU still faces many obstacles to finally recognizing China's market economy status. From a technical point of view, the first problem is that the EU believes that there is serious government intervention in the production and price of some commodities in China, such as some resource commodities.

Second, the government has provided disguised support to many large enterprises that are unable to repay their bank loans due to poor management, and forgave their debts through government decrees in a non-market manner.

Third, since the EU began to review the market economy of Chinese enterprises one by one last year, only a small number of enterprises are still considered to meet the requirements of the market economy. All these have a considerable impact on China's overall market economy status.

At the decision-making level, the EU's decision-making on this issue is under pressure from both industry and member states. In international trade, because tariff and non-tariff barriers are restricted to a large extent, countries have to seek other more effective protective measures, and anti-dumping is a disguised protective measure recognized by the World Trade Organization.

Under such circumstances, if the EU recognizes China's market economy status, it will mean that China's ability to cope with anti-dumping will be greatly enhanced, and it will also mean that the EU's trade deficit with China may increase.

At present, the EU's trade deficit with China has reached nearly 10 billion euros, and if it continues to increase, the pressure from EU industry and member states will certainly increase.

Of course, politics is also one of the factors influencing EU decision-making, most notably Russia.

While many believe that China's economic liberalization index is far ahead of Russia's, that its market economy is developing better than Russia's, and that Russia is not a member of the WTO, the European Union is already considering formally recognizing Russia's market economy status.

Naturally, everyone can see the truth very clearly, but it is very difficult to operate, so after New Zealand expressed its goodwill, the Chinese side decided to strike while the iron was hot and open this opening first.

"Once China's market economy status is recognized by New Zealand, which is in the camp of developed countries in the West, it will bring very positive significance. First of all, from a macro perspective, this kind of behavior has a very important exemplary effect on other countries. This means that China's achievements in reform, opening up, and market economy construction over the years have been recognized by the developed countries in the West. This is no longer just a matter of trade, but also of great benefit to international politics and China's international image. "Secondly, from a technical point of view, obtaining market economy status will be conducive to the further development of China's trade with New Zealand." It means that the cost calculation of Chinese goods is more accurate, and the dumping investigation of Chinese enterprises is more transparent, operable and fair, so that the self-defense ability of Chinese enterprises is strengthened, which leads to the healthy development of trade between the two sides. ”

"It turns out that there is so much knowledge here, you deserve to study international trade, and you know so much." Shen Ying said to Fan Wuxian with a smile.

"This is not very related to the trade of the country I studied, and I realized it myself." Fan Wuxin said that I have only stopped in college for a few days? It's strange to learn something, the exams were passed by cheating, but no one wants to seriously pursue these things.

While the two were talking, Minister Wu of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation came over and introduced Fan Wuxian to the representatives of the New Zealand Wool Industry Association, and everyone exchanged pleasantries and sat down to drink.

"He told us what the wool seller does?" Shen Ying asked Fan Wuxian in a low voice, they spoke in Chinese, and there was no need to worry that these New Zealanders would understand.

"If you want people to work, you have to give some benefits." Fan Wuxian also replied in a low voice, "New Zealand has nothing else, wool is everywhere, but now it is very difficult to sell wool, sales tend to be saturated, so they are eyeing the world's largest consumer market, so, you know-"

"In international exchanges, everyone is a real villain! Everything is on the surface, and it's also frank. Shen Ying said with a smile.

"Well, in fact, to engage in diplomacy is to do business, whether the business is cost-effective, whether it is profitable or profitable, diplomats have a scale in their hearts, whether they can do this business well, it depends on whether they meet a diplomat who knows how to balance." Fan Wuxian said to Shen Ying, "Sometimes you have to take advantage of it, you have to take advantage of it, you have to suffer a loss, and blindly suffering a loss or blindly taking advantage of it is not a long-term solution." ”

"Mr. Fan's high opinion!" The ambassador who was passing by next to him heard Fan Wuxi's words, and couldn't help but admire, "I have long heard that Mr. Fan is talented and talented, but after listening to these words, I know that this statement is really true, and it is not consistent under the so-called fame?" If Mr. Fan intends to mix in the diplomatic circles, he must also be a good hand. ”

Fan Wuxian raised the wine glass in his hand and touched it with the ambassador, and then said, "Don't say it, it's all in the wine." ”

The ambassador touched him knowingly, and then continued to greet the other guests.

"Are you sure he's a diplomat?" Shen Ying said with a smile, "Why is the sycophant beating so loudly?" ”

"That's natural, if you can't shoot a sycophant, what else can you do?" Fan Wuxian also smiled.

However, this time, the No. 1 chief brought Fan Wuzhi to visit, and he did have some requirements, because the request put forward by the New Zealand side is to hope to establish a wool sales channel with the mainland for a long time, which is not too much, but the problem now is that the number of sheep in New Zealand seems to be a little more.

At present, there are at least 60 million sheep in New Zealand's playgrounds to chew on turf and shear sheep, which is indeed a bit frightening.

The domestic wool industry is actually oversaturated, and it is also considering the way of export, at this time, if so much New Zealand wool is added, how much impact will it have on the industry?

In this way, it is more difficult to consume these wools by virtue of the current sluggish textile industry, but the New Zealand side cannot but agree to the request, otherwise the loss to themselves will be greater.

"Xiao Fan, you must do us this favor!" When the No. 1 leader was empty, he patted Fan Wuxian on the shoulder, and said to him seriously and with ardent expectations.

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