Strengthen the Role of Industry Associations and Promote the Development of Foreign Trade

摘要

This thesis presents the idea that industry association under the framework of WTO in foreign trade management has more advantages than under the government, and points out that the industry associations play an important role in reducing transaction costs, standardizing enterprise behavior in foreign trade and in terms of dealing with international trade frictions. But the industry associations are not perfect and still have shortcomings in other areas. So in order to improve the role of industry associations in foreign trade, it must be done to strengthen the construction of industry associations themselves, improve the management system, establish a mechanism with the government, enterprises and industry associations linked together; establish a system of university-industry cooperation and with the establishment of the international association network.