2006年6月27、28为期两天的世界贸易组织会议主要针对动植物卫生和食品安全(卫生与植物卫生措施),中国出口美国的木制圣诞树不幸成为此次会议的贸易关注点之。在美国入境检查过程中,在中国圣诞树彩灯中发现天牛,与亚洲长角天牛相近,美国已经花费2亿美元试图根除亚洲长角天牛。因此美国发布禁令,自2005年4月1日起禁止进口中国圣诞树。对此中国已经采取了相当充分的措 June 2006 27,28 The two-day World Trade Organization meeting focused mainly on animal and plant health and food safety (sanitary and phytosanitary measures) and China’s export to the United States of America’s wooden Christmas tree unfortunately became the trading concern of the conference. During the U.S. immigration inspection, the beetle was found in the Chinese Christmas tree lantern and similar to the Asian longhorn beetle. The United States has spent 200 million U.S. dollars trying to eradicate the Asian longhorned beetle. Therefore, the United States issued a ban on the ban on the import of Chinese Christmas trees from April 1, 2005. China has taken quite ample steps toward this