The situation is indeed as Fan Wubing expected. This time, the first president was willing to visit New Zealand in person, mainly because the negotiations between the two countries had made gratifying progress. The New Zealand government expressed that it was willing to recognize China's market economy status at the appropriate time.

This information made domestic senior officials feel very important. For example, when the founding of New China, Britain, as a very influential country among Western countries, first recognized the status of New China. If New Zealand, as one of the Western advanced countries, could recognize China's market economy status, it would open a gap for China in the unbreakable camp of advanced countries.

If the gap is opened, then the subsequent countries that are scrambling to establish deeper economic and trade cooperation with China, under the temptation of huge interests, the opportunity for the alliance forces built by the US government to collapse.

Considering this situation, the first person is so anxious to visit New Zealand, which will be a reasonable explanation.

China's market economy status has seriously damaged enterprises, and China and the debate between China and Deals on China's market economy status has been long-standing. Although China has made great achievements in reform and opening up and market economy construction, world economic giants such as the EU and the United States have never recognized China's market economy status.

Last year, the EU's trade policy with China began to change. It announced that it would cancel China from the list of non-market economies, but still regard China as a market-transformed economy country, allowing Chinese companies to defend their market economy status in individual cases and receive market economy treatment one by one.

In fact, since China's market economy status has not been recognized by the EU, when determining whether Chinese goods are dumped in their territory at lower cost, the EU does not refer to the price of a certain type of product in China as a reference, but to the price of similar products from other similar countries as a reference.

Due to the great incomparability between the selected third country and the specific situation of China, the EU has great arbitrary and unfairness in its anti-dumping investigations against China. This greatly affects the self-defense ability of Chinese companies when dealing with anti-dumping allegations.

To give a simple example, before 1993, China's color TV exported more than one million units in the EU, but in 1993, the EU began to conduct anti-dumping investigations on Chinese color TVs. During the investigation, the EU selected the reference country Singapore, and Singapore's labor cost was more than twenty times that of China.

Under unfair reference, China Color TV was judged to be dumped.

A few years later, China's color TV's market share in the EU was completely lost.

Therefore, the market economy status issue has become a roadblock for Chinese companies to deal with anti-dumping allegations.

In recent years, China-EU trade relations have quickly narrowed. The total trade volume of China-EU has not only increased, but the EU has become China's second largest trading partner. But at the same time, China has also become the hardest hit area for the EU's anti-dumping.

According to figures provided by the Ministry of Commerce, since my country encountered the first anti-dumping case in 1979, the EU has filed nearly 100 anti-dumping investigations against China so far, ranking second in the total number of cases filed against China, ranking second only to the United States, affecting my country's exports by about 4 billion US dollars. The products involved basically cover all areas of exports to Europe.

Like lifting the ban on arms sales to China, the EU still faces many obstacles to ultimately recognize China's market economy status. From a technical perspective, the first problem is that the EU believes that the production and prices of some Chinese commodities have serious government intervention, such as some resource commodities.

Secondly, the government supports many large enterprises that cannot repay bank loans due to poor management, and through government orders, they have exempted their debts in a non-market manner.

Third, since the EU began to review the market economy conditions of Chinese companies one by one to now, only a small number of companies are still considered to meet the requirements of the market economy. These have a significant impact on China's overall market economy status.

From a decision-making perspective, the EU's decision-making on this issue faces dual pressures from industry and member states. In international trade, since tariff barriers and non-tariff barriers are greatly restricted, countries have to seek other more effective protection measures. Anti-dumping is a disguised protection measure recognized by the World Trade Organization.

In this case, if the EU recognizes China's market economy status, it will mean that China's ability to cope with anti-dumping has greatly increased, and it also means that the EU's trade deficit with China may increase.

At present, the EU's trade deficit with China has reached nearly 10 billion euros. If it continues to increase, the pressure from the EU industry and member states will definitely increase.

Of course, political factors are also one of the factors that affect EU decision-making, and the most prominent example is Russia.

Although many people believe that China's economic liberalization index is far ahead of Russia, and its market economy is better than Russia, and that Russia is not a member of the WTO, the EU is already considering formally recognizing Russia's market economy status.

Of course, everyone can see the truth clearly, but it is very difficult to operate. Therefore, after New Zealand expressed goodwill, China decided to strike while the iron is hot and open the hole first.

"Once China's market economy status is recognized by New Zealand, which is the camp of Western advanced countries, it will bring very positive significance. First, from a macro perspective, this behavior plays a very important demonstration role for other countries. This means that China's achievements in reform and opening up and market economy construction over the years have been recognized by Western advanced countries. This is no longer just a problem in the field of trade, but also very beneficial to international politics and China's international image." Fan Wubing explained to Shen Ying, "Secondly, from a technical perspective, obtaining market economy status will be conducive to China's further development of trade with New Zealand. It means that the cost calculation of Chinese goods is more accurate, and the dumping investigation of Chinese companies is more transparent, operational and fair, and the self-defense capabilities of Chinese companies have been strengthened, thereby driving a healthy development of trade between the two sides."

"It turns out that there is so much knowledge here. You are worthy of studying international trade and know so much." Shen Ying said to Fan Wubing with a smile.

"This has little to do with the trade of the country I learned, and it all came to my own understanding." Fan Wubing said to me that I had only been suspended in college for a few days? It would be strange if I could learn something. At the beginning, I passed the exam by cheating, but no one was willing to seriously investigate these things.

While the two were talking, Minister Wu from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economics came over and introduced Fan Wubing and the others to the representatives of the New Zealand Wool Industry Association. Everyone exchanged greetings and sat down to drink.

"What did he introduce to us to the wool sellers?" Shen Ying asked Fan Wubing in a low voice. They talked in Chinese, so there was no need to worry that these New Zealanders would understand.

"If you want others to do work, you have to give some benefits." Fan Wubing also replied in a low voice, "There is nothing else in New Zealand, there is wool everywhere, but it is very difficult to take out wool now, and sales are becoming saturated, so they are eyeing the world's largest consumer market, so, you know-"

"In international exchanges, everyone is really villain! Everything is on the surface, and this is also open and honest." Shen Ying said with a smile.

"Well, actually doing diplomacy is about doing business. Whether the business is cost-effective or profitable, diplomats have a scale in their minds. Whether they can do this business well depends on whether they meet a diplomat who knows how to balance it." Fan Wubing said to Shen Ying, "Sometimes, you have to take advantage of it when you should take advantage of it, and you have to suffer losses when you should suffer losses. Simply taking losses or taking advantage of it is not a long-term solution."

"Mr. Fan!" The ambassador passing by was heard by Fan Wubing's words and couldn't help but exclaim, "I have heard that Mr. Fan is talented and talented. After hearing this, I knew that this statement was indeed true. As the saying goes, how could it be inconsistent with his reputation? If Mr. Fan intends to mess around in the diplomatic world, he must be a good player."

Fan Wubing raised the wine glass in his hand and touched the ambassador, then said, "I won't say it anymore, it's all in the wine."

The ambassador met him knowingly and continued to greet other guests.

"Are you sure he is a diplomat?" Shen Ying said with a smile, "Why do you flatter so loudly?"

"That's natural. If you can't even flatter, what other big things can you do?" Fan Wubing also smiled.

However, this time, the number one leader brought Fan Wubing to visit, which was indeed a requirement, because the New Zealand demanded that it could establish a wool sales channel with the Big Six aspects for a long time. This requirement is not an exaggeration, but the problem now is that there seems to be a little more sheep in New Zealand.

At present, there are at least 60 million sheep on the playground in New Zealand that are chewing grass and shearing wool. Such a huge number is indeed a bit shocking.

The domestic wool industry is actually oversaturated and is also considering the export path. If so much New Zealand wool is added at this time, how big will it have to impact the industry?

In this way, it would be more difficult to consume these wool with the current unrest in the textile industry, but New Zealand had to agree to the requirements, otherwise the losses would be greater. Under such circumstances, No. 1 thought of Fan Wubing first.
Chapter completed!