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rises every year. Since the reform and opening up, China39。s agricultural sector by other countries, including nontariff restrictions against China39。s entry to the WTO must ply with the international norms, including the Agreement on Agriculture and SinoUS Agricultural Cooperation Agreement, this has brought profound impact on China’s agricultural products. For China, entry to the WTO has brought about new opportunities and challenges. Positive ImpactsChina had to fulfill the obligations it mitted to during the 13year negotiation for WTO membership. Joining to the WTO has brought some advantages for China. It induced the eventual reduction and elimination of many policies distorting trade, production, and consumption of agricultural modities that were in consistent with WTO principles. Powerful Environment for the Trade of Agricultural ProductsFirstly, after joining the WTO, China has benefited from the preferential treatment in free trade, especially in tariff reduction, enjoyed by all signatory countries to the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade, the predecessor of WTO. China has unconditionally obtained the mostfavorednation status with all WTO members. These have given China a better opportunity to tap international agricultural resources and markets. China’s entry into WTO has helped China accelerate its agriculture reform and establish an agriculture macrocontrol system patible with the market economy, thus enhancing the production of agricultural products and sharpening the petitive edge of China39。s agricultural products. This paper aims to analyze the impacts of China’s entry to WTO on the trade of agricultural products from both the pros and cons to promote the healthy and rapid development of our country39。 it provides a framework for negotiating and formalizing trade agreements, and a dispute resolution process aimed at enforcing participants39。本文分析入世后我國農(nóng)產(chǎn)品貿(mào)易的現(xiàn)狀,研究入世對我國農(nóng)產(chǎn)品進出口貿(mào)易產(chǎn)生的影響,進而提出有針對性的對策,以利于我國農(nóng)產(chǎn)品對外貿(mào)易的健康快速的發(fā)展。入世后中國面臨更多的挑戰(zhàn)和機遇。66%的人口生活在農(nóng)村,48%的勞動力依靠土地為生計,農(nóng)產(chǎn)品進出口貿(mào)易事關(guān)農(nóng)民的增收、就業(yè)和農(nóng)村經(jīng)濟的發(fā)展。The Impact of China’s Entry to WTO on the Trade of Chinese Agricultural Products and the Countermeasures[Abstract] China is a developing country with the largest population in the world, and agriculture is the fundamental industry in our country. About 66% Chinese people live in the countryside, and 48% labor force rely on the land for a living. Therefore, the import and export of agricultural products is closely related to farmers39。 ine, employment and rural economic development. Since reform and opening up, the trade of agricultural products has risen rapidly, China has bee the fifth exporter and fourth importer of agricultural products in the world. After its entry to the WTO, China’s agriculture has met a lot of challenges and opportunities as well. China’s entry to WTO has brought about lots of impacts on the international trade of China’s agriculture products. Studying on the impacts of China’s entry to WTO and working out some improving measures would be of great significance to promote the healthy and rapid development for the foreign trade of China’s agricultural products.[Key words] agricultural products, import and export, impacts, countermeasures入世對我國農(nóng)產(chǎn)品進出口貿(mào)易的影響及發(fā)展對策【摘要】中國是世界上人口最多的發(fā)展中國家,農(nóng)業(yè)是我國的基礎產(chǎn)業(yè)。我國自改革開放以來,農(nóng)產(chǎn)品國際貿(mào)易取得了快速的發(fā)展,特別是我國在2001年加入WTO以后農(nóng)產(chǎn)品國際貿(mào)易規(guī)模不斷擴大,已經(jīng)成為世界第五大農(nóng)產(chǎn)品出口國和第四大農(nóng)產(chǎn)品進口國。入世對中國農(nóng)業(yè)有多方面的影響?!娟P(guān)鍵詞】農(nóng)產(chǎn)品 進出口 影響 對策ContentsIntroduction 11. The Current Situation of International Trade of Agricultural Products 22. The Impacts of China’s Entry to WTO 3 Positive Impacts 3 Negative Impacts 63. Countermeasures 8 Adjusting the Structure of Agricultural Products 8 Industrializing the Operation of Agriculture 9 Establishing the System of Environmental Barriers 9 Enhancing Antidumping Consciousness 10 Formulating Policies to Further Support the Export of Agricultural Products 10Conclusion 11Works Cited 13Acknowledgements 14IntroductionThe World Trade Organization (WTO) is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization officially menced on January 1, 1995 under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which menced in 1948. The organization deals with regulation of trade between participating countries。 adherence to WTO agreements which are signed by representatives of member governments and ratified by their parliaments. Most of the issues that the WTO focused on derived from previous trade negotiations, especially from the Uruguay Round.On December 11 2001, China joined WTO and became the 143rd formal member. Joining WTO was a very important event for the developing country. China has bee an important member of the world economic munity and played an important role in the global economy. WTO membership open up China’s market for more international trade and investment, and open up the world economy for China’s exports. Nowadays China has bee the fifth exporter and fourth importer of agricultural products in the world. The trade volume was $ billion in 1978, and $ billion in 2008, with an annual average growth rate of 912%.The agricultural trading nation has been formed. At the same time, the shock of agricultural products was gradually emerging. China’s foreign trade of agricultural products kept 20 years’ surplus. Then it occurred to the trade deficit for the first time, which accounted for 9% of the total in the national agricultural trade. In 2008, the exports of agricultural products reached $ billion, an increase of % from the previous year dropped to %, and the trade deficit was $ billion (Wang Li 2009). Would this bring serious problem to the three rural issues? How to make full use of the WTO agreement to protect the development of foreign trade and the vital interests of the farmers in the more open market conditions? It was an urgent problem tha