Research on the Impact of ASEAN Trade Facilitation on China-ASEAN Import and Export

• 1、School of Economics,Jinan University,Guangzhou 510632

Abstract：With the continuous development of economic globalization, free trade has been further developed among countries, and the tariff levels of countries around the world have fallen sharply. However, reducing tariffs is difficult to become a driving force for trade development. The "inefficiency" of trade is increasingly important as a form of implicit influence on trade. Promoting trade facilitation in this context has become the focus of scholars and industry in various countries. China and ASEAN have close economic ties. China is actively seeking to connect with ASEAN countries in the process of promoting the "Belt and Road" to jointly promote regional development and prosperity. This paper builds four first-level indicators and 15 second-level indicators and select the sample data from 2009 to 2016 to measure the level of trade facilitation between China and ASEAN countries, and then use the gravity model to analyze the impact of ASEAN countries\' trade facilitation on China-ASEAN bilateral trade flows: (1) The higher the degree of ASEAN countries\' trade facilitation , the greater the promotion of bilateral trade flows, and the impact of trade facilitation on trade flows is greater than the impact of tariffs on trade flows; (2) among the various indicators of trade facilitation, Information technology has the greatest impact on China-ASEAN bilateral trade, followed by the customs environment and government environment, and finally the quality of infrastructure.

Keywords： trade facilitation China-ASEAN Free Trade Area trade flow