The Impact of Digital Trade Rules in RTA on Value-Added Trade of Member Countries
The economic effects of deepening digital trade rules in regional trade agreements(RTAs)have been a hot research topic in recent years.Still,research on the impact of the depth of digital trade provisions in RTAs on industry-wide value-added trade needs to be further enriched.Based on the attribute classification of RTA clauses,this article constructed five categories of digital trade clause heterogeneity depth index covering data-related clause depth,trade promotion clause depth,information security clause depth,organizational operation clause depth and total clause depth index,and based on the value-added trade data(2000～2014)of all RTA members in 2019 was used to empirically test the impact of the depth of RTA digital trade rules on member countries'value-added trade,and analyze the heterogeneous effect of the depth of digital trade terms on value-added trade in different types of RTA and different industries.The results show that:(1)RTA digital trade clauses have significantly promo-ted industry-wide value-added trade among agreement members,among which the data-related clauses with the free flow of data as the core have the most significant positive effect;(2)RTA digital trade clauses Depth has a more substantial effect on promoting value-added trade among members of"North-North"and"South-South"type trade agreements than on"South-North"type agree-ments;(3)The depth of RTA digital trade provisions increases the impact on manufacturing The positive effect of value-added trade is more potent than that of agriculture and services.The impact of the depth of RTA digital trade provisions on value-added trade has prominent agreement type and industry heterogeneity.This article proposes that during RTA negotiations,we should deepen the construction of digital trade rules,accelerate the construction of a network system of digital trade rules,actively pro-mote the digital transformation of traditional industries such as manufacturing,strengthen the construction of digital trade infra-structure and regulations,enhance digital economic governance capabilities,and build a better A new pattern of high-level open-ing up to the outside world.
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