With the deepening development of economic globalization and trade liberalization, traditional trade barriers such as tariff and quota, are gradually enervated and abolished. Developed countries are shifting to another puzzling, vague trade measure ----technical barriers to trade (TBT). According to the statistics, 80% of the trade barriers result from TBT. In fact, various measures of TBT have becoming an important factor affecting the development of the international trade and the issue of the WTO negotiation in the future.
After china’s entry into WTO, china’s economic environment is getting more open. More and more enterprises have faced severe impact of TBT. However, many Chinese textile enterprises don’t know how to properly deal with the challenge of TBT. They have many defects either in conception or in ability. Whether Chinese textile enterprises can successfully break through TBT is very important, not only for their further development and internationalization but also for the stability of china’s national economy. Hence, we should first analyze in detail the content and feathers of TBT, and the positive and negative effect which TBT has on textile enterprises, secondly we should work out the advice to help Chinese textile enterprises to break through TBT. All these studies are vital for the development and internationalization of Chinese textile enterprises.
[Key words] Technical barriers to trade; Textile enterprises; Internationalization