Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Contemporary Education and Economic Development (CEED 2018)

The Impact of Environmental Protection Regulations on Trade Liberalization: Evidence from the Environmental Provisions Under China’s Free Trade Agreements

Authors
Wan Lu, Fu Yi-zhong, Liu Guan-chu
Corresponding Author
Wan Lu
Available Online December 2018.
DOI
10.2991/ceed-18.2018.55How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Environmental Protection Regulations; Free Trade Agreement; Random Effect Model
Abstract

Based on China’s 11 Free Trade Agreements signed with 19 trade partners, this paper discusses how the environmental protection provisions affect trade liberalization. Firstly, it makes use of Chinese merchandise trade data from 2008 to 2015 to analyze the features of trade between China and 19 trade agreement partners. Then it introduces the population, territory area, the distance between China and the trade partners, income difference, social labor productivity, the infrastructure indicators and the environmental protection regulations as independent variables, which builds the extended gravity model to explore the influence of environmental protection regulations. The results of the empirical analysis show that the greater the intensity of related environmental protection is, the larger promotion of trade liberalization will be. Trade agreement partner’s infrastructure construction has a positive impact; geographical distance has a negative impact. However, the impact of economic difference is not significant.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Contemporary Education and Economic Development (CEED 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
December 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-631-0
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/ceed-18.2018.55How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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