Abstract:Since China joined WTO,the foreign technical measures,replaced tariff and quota,have become the major barrier for the exports of Chinese agricultural products.Taking apples and garlic for example and the maximum residue limit (MRL) standard as a proxy variable for the technical measures,this paper studied the impact of foreign technical measures on exports of Chinese agricultural products based on the HMR two-stage model.The empirical results show that the foreign MRL standards impose a significant inhibiting effect on the export possibility of apples and garlic,and the export volumes of apples also suffer from it.More precisely,compared with the developed countries,the MRL standards for the developing countries inhibit the export possibility of Chinese apples and garlic in a more obvious way; compared with the developing countries,the MRL standards for the developed countries significantly inhibit the export volumes.