Value-added Trade Statistical Method And Analysis Of Trade-related Issues

With the globalization of the world economy, the international specialization is increasinglyrefined, the inter-regional cooperation is increasingly closed and there are more and more tradeforms. All these challenge the traditional trade statistics system and make it unable to reflect thereal essence of international trade. When conventional trade statistics cannot reflect the essenceof trade, the trade data obtained by it will be distorted. And there will be a deviation of tradepolicies which enacted based on these distorted data. So it is imperative to reform the tradestatistical method.This paper mainly researches the value-added trade measurement and its impact on relatedtrade issues. Take the literature review of international trade statistical system changes as thetheoretical background and the impulse of economic globalization to trade statistical method forrealistic background. By integrating the model of value-added trade measurement and the WIODdatabase, this paper decomposes40economies’ total export from1995to2011according to thesources of value added and estimates35industries’ value added in export of China andUSA.And then use these data to measure China’s location in global value chain and its foreigntrade dependence degree.The results showed that traditional trade statistical method exaggerate export of allcountries at different degree and under the background of economic globalization theexaggeration will get larger; in China value added in export of manufacturing industry isrelatively low and lower than the United States, only in agriculture and some primary productsmanufacturing industry, it is significantly higher than the United States; although ourparticipation in global value chain is rising, but still in the downstream of global value chain andforeign trade dependence degree is not so high as traditional trade statistics but still at a highlevel.