The Development Tendency And Influence Of Intra-firm International Trade

In the 1980s, intra-firm trade developed with a rapid speed, it influenced international trade theory and international trade relationship deeply. It has important academic value and practical significance to analyze on intra-firm trade tendency and influence.I mainly rely on second-hand data (from books, reports, articles and journals etc.) to complete my dissertation due to shortage of research aid and practice opportunity, and it is very difficult to achieve exact information about intra-firm trade from multinational corporations concerned. Based on these second-hand data, I'll try to combine theory and empirical, combine history and reality, complementary with mathematical tools such as tables and charts to illustrate issues, guarantee the leakproofness of logical of this dissertation.In the first chapter of this thesis I introduce the background and significant of this research, research status at home and abroad, research ideas and research methods, research innovation and deficiencies, etc. In this part I raise the subject of intra-firm international trade. In the next chapter, I study on the current development conditions of intra-firm trade, achieve the basic realization of intra-firm trade.In chapter three I research on the pure theory models of intra-firm trade, mainly including market structure theory, internalization theory, comparative advantage theory etc. This provides the theoretical basis for intra-firm trade research.I research on the concrete motive of intra-firm trade in chapter four. There are some concrete motives of intra-firm such as:break through trade barriers of host country; utilize transfer-pricing tactics; pursue economies of scale; avoid losing technology advantages; strengthen its monopoly status in market; overcome uncertain of external market etc.Except for concrete motives discussed above, there are some external conditions that may influence the development of intra-firm trade, such as the deepen development of breadth and depth of international labor division, the strong propulsion of trade and investment liberalization, the revolution of communication and transportation etc.Based on above research, I analyze new tendencies and characters in chapter six. Intra-firm trade is a tendency that will not change in long term, it has a vibrant development momentum;the modality of intra-firm trade turns to be diversity; there are more and more types of commodities traded by intra-firm trade; high and new technologies are used widely in intra-firm trade; the supervise of intra-firm becoming strictly etc.Intra-firm trade has a widely influence. Multinational corporations and other enterprises can learn some management methods from intra-firm trade; MNCs as the most important market participants, the adaption of intra-firm trade will influence the world economy and trade widely, countries economy and trade will be influenced too.