After joining the WTO, China’s foreign trade has increased sharply, while anti-dumping, anti-subsidy, safeguard measures and technical barriers to trade emerge endlessly. China has gradually entered the trade friction-prone period, which leads to serious losses. More and more other participating members have used the special safeguard measures which our country promised while joining the WTO,which would produce unfavorable effects on the growth of our trade. Trade association which plays an important role in the trade, should strengthen the effects on avoiding occurrence of special safeguard measures and responding to the lawsuit of special safeguard measures. This thesis stands the point of the special safeguard measures, elaborates the definition, characters and basic functions of trade association. And it indicates the existing shortage of trade association, and finds the gap with the role it should have. At last, it brings forward ameliorations of the trade association.
【key words】 Trade Association; Special Safeguard Measures;
Trade Diversion; Self-discipline of Trade;