Study On Effects Of Trade Single Window On Export Competitiveness In China

At present,trade facilitation has become the main trend of world economic development.With the advent of the recovery period,how to use the specific trade facilitation measures to recover the power of foreign trade growth?Among the trade facilitation measures,only single window concentrates trade facilitation's three elements:Simplification,Coordination,and Standardization.International community has paid more attention to it,because of its speediness,efficiency and cost reduction for business and regulators.As the reform of trade facilitation in China,construction of single window is imperative.So,what is the relationship between single window and trade facilitation?What kinds of channels does single window reduce the transaction cost by?Can it enhance the export competitiveness?What is the mechanism?What kinds of experience of foreign economies successfully establishing a single window is worth learning for us?This paper refines the idea of transaction cost from the theories of international trade,analyzes the channels of trade single window affecting transaction cost,structures the model of trade single window on the export competitiveness,carries on the demonstration analysis to theory mechanism based on the empirical facts,simulates to estimate the benefits of trade single window,and finally puts forward the countermeasures promoting the construction of China's trade single window.This paper is divided into five parts.The first chapter is an introduction to clarify research background and significance,defines core concepts,reviews corresponding literatures from five aspects and makes some comments briefly.From the main international trade theories,the second chapter refines the idea of transaction cost as the theoretical basis of this paper;decomposes channels which trade single window reduces transaction costs by,and annotates the impact of the transaction cost on export competitiveness using the equilibrium analysis method,finally based on the analytical framework of Melitz(2003),builds theory model for the impact of trade single window on export competitiveness.The third chapter reviews the development process of electronic port and divides it into four stages.Meanwhile,the international experiences,such as the practice of Sweden,Japan,Singapore,Korea,Hong Kong of China,are compared.Based on two dimensions of trade scale and trade structure,the fourth chapter makes statistical description to China's export trade features;combining the factors that influence the export competitiveness,uses RCA index,TC index,Ms index to calculate China's export competitiveness and compares with other economies.Import and export time measures single window,MPR measures export competitiveness,and this chapter analyzes the impact of trade single window on export competitiveness.In the end,designs project to estimate the economic benefits of trade single window.The fifth chapter makes some suggestions.This paper draws conclusions in the following aspects.First,although the main international trade theories have not made any specific analysis about transaction cost,always embodies the idea of it.Second,single window can reduce transaction cost by simplifying the business,improving transparency and efficiency of customs clearance and other channels,and then affecting the export competitiveness.Third,there are many similarities between electronic port and trade single window.Fourth,much experience from foreign economies that have established single window successfully is worth learning,such as publicity,legislation,cooperation between government and enterprises.Fifth,the reduction of import and export time both can promote export competitiveness,but in contrast,the latter is more obvious.Sixth,results of simulation project shows that establishing trade single window can not only expand export scale,but also greatly enhance the export competitiveness.The main innovation points are in the following aspects:First,refining the idea of transaction cost from international trade theories comprehensively;analyzing the channels of single window affecting trade cost,and using general equilibrium analysis to demonstrate how transaction cost impacts export competitiveness,theoretically clarifying the relationship among single window,transaction cost and the export competitiveness.Based on Heterogeneity Trade Theory and regarding single window as a complex of trade facilitation,introducing cross-border efficiency into the Melitz(2003)model from fixed costs perspective,and analyzing its effect in trade competitiveness.Second,the paper compares more successful cases in establishing single window and comes to the conclusion of the institutional implications.Third,uses different indicators to describe the export competitiveness of China.Forth,we introduce time that completes trade process of import and export as a indicator of single window and MPR as a indicator of export competitiveness to test the impact of single window on export competitiveness.Finally,we design a project for simulating and estimating the benefits of trade single window.