摘要:行业协会是市场经济发展的产物,在市场经济的发展进程中扮演着非常重要的角色。作为民间性的中介组织,行业协会在对外贸易领域也大有作为。能够在为企业开拓国际市场,提高行业国际竞争力,应对国际贸易摩擦,规范出口秩序等方面发挥很大的作用。我国行业协会起步较晚,虽然在经济建设、社会发展中已经发挥出一定的作用,但至今还存在着诸多问题,急需进一步深化改革和不断完善。
本文首先深入分析了行业协会在对外贸易中发挥的各种作用,然后研究了发达国家行业协会的成功经验,最后对如何完善我国的行业协会使其充分发挥贸易促进作用进行了较全面深入的探讨。
关键词:行业协会;对外贸易;作用
The Function of Trade Association in Foreign Trade
Abstract: Trade association is the organic component of the market economy, playing key role in development of the market economy. As intermediate organization, it could also do much benefit to international trade, such as helping enterprises to expand international market, enhancing competitiveness, dealing with international trade conflicts and regulate export order. Our country''s trade association starts relatively late. Though it has already played a certain role in economic construction and social development, there are still a great deal of problems, which need further deepening reform and to be improved urgently.
This paper analyzes the function of trade association in foreign trade deeply at first, and then research the successful experience of trade association in developed countries. At last, it analyzes how to develop our country’s trade association in order to strengthen its trade promotion function.
Key Words: Trade Association, Foreign Trade, Function
如果说代议制政府是18世纪的伟大社会发明,而官僚政治是19世纪的伟大发明,那么,可以说那个有组织的私人自愿性活动也即大量的公民社会组织代表了20世纪最伟大的社会创新。
“公民社会组织”中最重要的一种形式就是行业协会。在许多发达国家,行业协会被视为政府与社会之间的润滑剂、协调器和保险阀,发挥着重要作用。随着WTO规则对政府的约束及政府企业管理部门的撤消,行业协会作为企业群体的代表,成为市场经济体系的一个有机组成部分,进入加快发展、逐步完善并与国际接轨的新时期。行业协会等中介组织在维护同行业企业市场竞争秩序、维护企业合法权益、代表企业与政府进行沟通协调、建立企业与政府之间的桥梁与纽带的同时,在对外贸易中也将担当起重要角色,发挥出无可替代的作用。