중국이 체결한 FTA의 원산지기준 엄격성지수 분석

Abstract

Globalization of economy and integration of regional economy seems to be a global trend. In order to develop the economy, nations are joining in pursuit of free trade agreements (FTA). China has spurred free trade agreement negotiations since it raised the strategy of development of free trade zones at the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party. To date, China has signed 15 FTAs. And 11 additional FTAs are still under negotiation. The purpose of concluding a FTA is to receive preferential tariffs. But to determine whether it falls under the concession item, each country needs to have rules of origin criteria. Therefore, the rules of origin and decision criteria are the most important part of the FTA. It is necessary to conduct a study on the rules of origin in the long term view. The purpose of this study is to investigate the characteristics of the decision criteria for origin of FTAs in China and to analyze how strict the criterion of origin determination is. In addition, we examined whether there is a difference in the strictness of the decision criteria of origin for each country or industry. According to the results of the analysis, the average index of restrictiveness in ASEAN and Singapore is highest, and the restrictiveness index in Costa Rica is the lowest. By industry, the strictness of primary products such as agricultural and marine products is high and the restrictiveness of chemical products and machinery is low. Finally, this study attempted to estimate the cause of the above result, but there are limitations in that the restrictiveness of the decision criteria of origin can not consider the effect on trade. However, it is believed that it is still meaningful as an unprecedented study on the analysis of the restrictiveness index of Chinese FTAs.