Digital Trade Barriers,RTA Regulatory Integration and the Upgrading of Service Industry in Global Value Chains
With the digital transformation of service trade,digital trade barriers have become a new constraint factor for the upgrading of a country's serv-ice industry in global value chains.The effective formulation of RTA digital trade rules is an important means to break through the behind-border policy barriers.Based on the multinational industry panel data provided by OECD-DSTRI,TAPED and ADB-MRIO databases,this paper examines the impact mechanism of digital trade barriers on the upgrading of service industry in global value chains and the regulatory integration effect of RTA digital trade rules.The study found that digital trade barriers hinder a country's position in the global value chain of service industry,and this con-clusion remains robust after a series of tests.The specific mechanism such as trade cost effect,resource allocation effect,human capital structure effect and network interconnection effect are the important channels that digital trade barriers negatively affect the upgrading of service industry in global value chains.Multidimensional heterogeneity test shows that policy barriers in intellectual property and cross-border payment are more obsta-cles;the negative impact of digital trade barriers on the global value chain upgrading of the service industry is stronger in countries with"restricted"and"conditional"data regulatory models and higher regulatory policy divergence,and more significantly in the"digitally-deliverable services"and"foreign digital factor input-driven"industries.The expansion analysis shows that by signing RTA digital trade rules with foreign countries and in-creasing the depth level rather than the breadth level of the rules,the negative impact of digital trade policy barriers on the upgrading of service in-dustry in global value chains can be weakened,showing a significant effect of behind-border regulation integration,in which the regulation integra-tion effect is stronger when the depth level of"trade promotion clauses"is increased.The conclusions of this paper provide important empirical evi-dence and policy basis for the wider opening of digital trade to promote the upgrading of service industry in global value chains.
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