At present, economic globalization and imbalanced development are two trends in the world economy. The rise of trade protectionism, mainly in the form of anti-dumping and technical barriers, has triggered a surge in international trade frictions.

To eliminate international trade frictions, we cannot expect one or two "short-term confrontations", but must be prepared for a long-term game. Take the textile industry as an example. After the cancellation of global textile quotas, Chinese textile export companies have not had a peaceful life. Compared with the past quota era, the external environment for textile exports has become increasingly worse. Researcher Bao Zongshun, director of the Agricultural Development Institute of the Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, gave an example of Wuxi's textile exports. The city's textile exports account for more than 50% of its total output. Of the textiles exported from Wuxi, 30% are sold to Europe and the United States. Although the United States only proposed special guarantee limits for category 7 textiles and the EU for category 2 textiles this time, the current situation is that customers are afraid to place orders and companies are afraid to accept orders, especially for long-term products with a delivery time of more than half a year. orders and bulk orders. The second is that the products that have been ordered and produced cannot be produced or delivered due to sudden changes in the situation, and the initiative is not in the hands of the production company.

The response is not just about "water comes and soil covers", researcher Bao said, "life" is relatively easy for companies that are the first to "go out". Wuxi Guangming Group Co., Ltd. has not only established three joint venture factories in China, but also invested US$2.65 million to establish three overseas enterprises in Mongolia, Cambodia, and Madagascar, and has opened three sales companies in the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong, China. In 2004, the company's total export volume was US$32 million, and in the first quarter of this year, exports reached US$10 million. Exports in April increased by 12.3% compared with the same period last year. From the current point of view, not only are the economic benefits of overseas factories better than domestic factories, but the greater advantage is that setting up factories overseas drives the export of domestic raw and auxiliary materials; taking semi-finished products of quota products overseas for processing, they are no longer subject to quotas. limit. For example, knitted sweaters produced in factories in Mongolia are processed from semi-finished products produced in domestic factories.

Researcher Zhu Naixin said that the next five years will be a "frequent period of troubles" for foreign trade companies. After textiles, there are also labor-intensive products with competitive advantages such as footwear, bicycles, and auto parts. You may encounter friction and disputes. Since there are many incentives for friction, the corresponding game strategies must be diversified. Experts suggest that we can seize the initiative in the "chess game" by accelerating the adjustment of industrial structure, actively guiding the government and chambers of commerce and other industry organizations, using legal space to respond to external lawsuits, and combining independent brand development with leasing and buying licenses.