A serious consequence of the global financial and economic crisis is that trade protectionism has risen in many places. Russia is both a victim of trade protection and an implementer. The Russian side believes that if the World Trade Organization (WTO) cannot maintain market fairness, then it is understandable that countries implement protectionist measures.
Since 2004, the EU and Russia have been frictionally traded in the export of industrial products from Russia to the EU, including energy products, chemical raw materials, silicon steel sheets, aluminum sheets and steel cables. After repeated negotiations, the two sides agreed to develop a list of industrial products exported from Russia to the EU. However, due to problems such as process water quality and quality standards, Russian companies have always been subject to EU market protectionist measures.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev recently proposed that he hopes to gradually phase out all anti-dumping sanctions between Europe and Russia. Medvedev also promised to provide stable natural gas to the West and provide the EU with the nuclear material uranium needed for local nuclear power plants in exchange for the EU completely withdrawing trade restrictions against Russia. At the same time, in the second half of last year, the Russian government introduced the outline of economic modernization development, emphasizing the improvement of the technical level of domestic production.
On February 16 this year, Russian Finance Minister Kudrin accepted an exclusive interview with Russia's "Today" TV channel. Russia said that Russia adheres to the principle of opposing trade protectionism, but does not deviate from rationality. Russian political and social issuer Picur Dmitri said that economic modernization is a goal of struggle and has a long way to go. Before this goal is achieved, Russia will not give up its practice of maintaining its trade status. After the outbreak of the financial crisis, in order to protect the domestic market, Russia has significantly increased import tariffs on some products. Import tariffs on TV sets, individual types of rolled metal, non-alloyed steel, and ferrous metal pipes have increased by 5% to 20%, respectively, and pork import tariffs have increased by more than 60%.
Sergei Sanakyev, director of the Russia-China Economic and Trade Cooperation Center, told the Xinhua News Agency that the WTO rules were originally formulated for market protectionist measures, but now the countries involved in the formulation of WTO rules are actively proposing various Various protectionist measures. He said that he has closely followed China's entire process of joining the WTO and admired China's commitment to WTO.
Moscow's Cherkizovsky market was once a concentrated place for Russian Chinese businessmen. In June last year, Russian authorities suddenly shut down the market. When the reporter asked whether this practice was a market protection measure, Sergei Sanakiev denied it. He said that the big market-style economic and trade exchanges are gone forever. Russia should not have a single Chinese product market. Russia's foreign economic and trade activities have entered a new stage of development. It is hoped that high-quality Chinese goods will appear in all major cities in Russia. Shops and supermarkets.