The Study On The Effect Of Carbon Tariffs On Chinese Transport Services Trade

With China’s accession to the WTO, foreign trade has shown a good momentum of growth, transportation services trade, As the derived demand for trade in goods, has also been a corresponding development. Nowadays, Chinese has been one of the top maritime counties. Global economy grew rapidly, but for the cost of serious environmental damage. Then "low-carbon economy", a new development of both economy and environment, appears. However, developed countries claim, developing countries in the process of economic operation caused a lot of carbon dioxide emissions, that is the major promoter of global climate deterioration. So they will impose additional tariffs to carbon dioxide with import and export commodities of developing countries, ultimately achieve the purpose of protecting domestic enterprises. Such ideas spread rapidly between countries, industry, commodity groups. After Durban Climate Conference, the European Union, the United States and other developed countries intend to expand the scope of taxation to the field of trade in services, and have started researching on the taxation of transport services trade. Once the policy implemented, our transport services trade, trade in goods and even the domestic economic environment would be impacted. This article study on the effect of Carbon Tariffs on Chinese transport services trade, to provide a theoretical basis for policy formulation.Firstly, the paper summarized the meaning, history, characteristics, collection methods of carbon tariffs, and defines the conception of transport services trade. On this basis, we discuss the current situation of the transportation services, found basic industries of China’s transport services grow rapidly, the trade develop, but on a smaller scale, and uncoordinated with the development of trade in goods. In addition, we make a ruling on the basis of carbon tariffs-China’s carbon emissions. The results show that China’s carbon emissions, per capita carbon emissions were far less than those in developed countries; the total amount of transport services trade emissions, carbon emission intensity is lower than those in developed countries. Thus it does not have a factual basis on the carbon tariffs on China’s transportation services trade. In this paper, we use the general equilibrium analysis to establish a CGE model, to construct a Social Accounting Matrix through the equilibrium relationship between the internal model of each module. On this basis, we use the simulation analysis method to find the impact of different levels of carbon tariffs on China’s transportation service trade. Results show that when developed countries levy＄30 tariff per ton of carbon dioxide emissions, prices will decline slightly, output will grow, but the export volume will decline than the base period. When the carbon tariffs add to＄60, all aspects appear the same trend, but the magnitude is greater. For the above simulation results, this paper argues that, China should seek international right to speak, promote the technological innovation of transport service enterprises, develop new clean energy, seek government policy support.