The Liberalization Of Services Trade In China-ASEAN Free Trade Area

January 14 2007, "trade in services agreement" signed between China and ASEAN formally declared the opening up of trade in services markets. This is also the first services trade agreement with other countries under the framework of a free trade area, which is also an important initiative in promoting the opening up of services sectors in our country. Therefore, the study of China-ASEAN regional liberalization of trade in services has very important practical significance, not only to the service trade cooperation in China-ASEAN Free Trade Area, but also for future Chinese participation in regional economic organizations.This paper attempts to study the liberalization of service trade in China-ASEAN. Chapter I Introduction is the overview of significance, frame structure, innovation and lack of points;Chapter II Literature Review of liberalization of trade in services, was summarized mainly from three aspects: the concept, the measurement and the relationship between protocol opening up and services trade liberalization; Chapter III describes foundation of reality of China-ASEAN Service Trade from several aspects: the total volume of service trade, the pace of development, trade and industrial competitiveness; the conclusion is that both sides take on diversity and complementarities in comparison advantages; The bilateral cooperation in services trade between China and ASEAN should strive to complement each other to achieve common development and a win-win situation;Chapter IV interprets the China-ASEAN "Service trade agreements", at the same time, uses the frequency indexes established by Hoekman to quantify the level of liberalization of trade in services from the breadth and depth; the conclusion is that the China-ASEAN has surpassed GATS not matter the opening department, or the degree of openness, but the overall level of openness is still not high; Chapter V frist analyses the existed problems in the cooperation between China and ASEAN, and then on this basis proposes countermeasures and proposals on how to better develop China-ASEAN trade in services from regional policies and industrial policies.