An Empirical Study On The Impact Of Various Types Of Environmental Regulations On Enterprise Exports

Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China,the scale of my country’s foreign trade has continued to expand,and the trade structure has been continuously optimized.Faced with the severe and complex domestic and international situation and the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in 2020,my country has become the only major economy in the world that has achieved positive growth in trade in goods.The total value of imports and exports reached RMB 32.1 trillion,which strongly supported the recovery of the world economy.At the same time,the rapid development of industry has brought irreversible damage to the ecological environment,with yellow sand in the sky,garbage besieged city,and river water smelly.For the health of future generations,our country’s environmental regulatory policy system has grown out of nothing,from government decrees to market regulation,and then to the supervision of the whole society,with its connotations constantly expanding.However,has the environmental protection policy had the expected impact on export companies? What actions have export companies taken in the face of increasingly stringent environmental regulations? Have Chinese export companies got rid of the problem of rising costs caused by environmental regulations? All are worthy of in-depth analysis and exploration.Based on this,this article first studies the development situation and practical problems of my country’s export enterprises from three perspectives: the nature of export enterprises,the structure of export commodities,and export destinations.Then it sorted out the development process of my country’s environmental regulatory policy system,and decomposed it into three levels: government decrees,market incentives,and social supervision according to policy categories and implementation subjects.In theory,based on different perspectives such as "following cost theory","innovation compensation effect","environmental Kuznets curve",etc.,it elaborated on the mechanism of environmental regulation for my country’s export trade.On this basis,combining the above theoretical results with heterogeneous trade theory as the core,and using the data of 16,128 export companies selected from the industrial enterprise database released by the National Bureau of Statistics,a panel on the impact of environmental regulations on the export decision and export intensity of enterprises has been constructed.Binary selection model and panel Tobit model.Studies have shown that command-based environmental regulations have an inverted U-shaped impact on corporate exports,and currently have a positive effect on most companies’ exports.Market-incentive environmental regulations have significantly affected corporate export decision-making and export scale,and implicit environmental regulations have a positive effect on exports.The export decisionmaking of enterprises shows a "U"-shaped influence,which has a negative effect on the export scale of enterprises.After dividing enterprises according to regional distribution and industry attributes,it is found that because of their strong capital,enterprises in the eastern region have taken the lead in getting rid of the endogenous impact of environmental regulations,and the effect of innovation and upgrading has gradually emerged.However,the eastern region has developed education and residents’ awareness of environmental protection.The inhibitory effect brought about by corporate exports has not yet been eliminated.The study also found that marketincentive environmental regulations have stimulated labor-intensive enterprises to enter the export trade market and promoted the transformation and upgrading of knowledgeintensive enterprises.Therefore,the government needs to consider the differences in the implementation effects of environmental regulatory policies caused by regions and industries,combine various types of environmental regulations,improve the existing environmental policy system,improve the market trading system for environmentally polluting products,innovate public participation methods,and optimize public participation A long-term mechanism to achieve a win-win situation between environmental quality improvement and enterprise export promotion.