A Study On Sino-ASEAN Intra-industry Trade

After the world warⅡ, the intra-industry trade has been developing quickly in industrialized countries and newly-industrialized countries(NICs). According to the research by western studies , the intra-industry trade indexes of industrialized countries are higher than that of newly-industrialized countries , which by the turn are higher than that of developing countries and the higher the intra-industry level is , the more competitive a country's commodity is. The ASEAN free trade area was built in 1994, since then, their economy and Cooperation improved quickly, the trade also improved, so, intra—industry trade which is the Main form, This problem is useful. With the rapid increase of mutual trade between China and ASEAN, both parties'trade structure has been changed notably. The both parties shift from inter-industry trade to intra-industry trade.By employing the Grubel-Lloyd intra-industry trade index to analyze the trade data of China and ASEAN , the paper testifies the existence of the increasing trend of intra-industry trades between China and ASEAN.Analyzes the overall motivations of intra-industry between trade between China and ASEAN. Based on these analysis,the paper also studys the impacts of the intra-industry trade between China and ASEAN on both Chinese economy and ASEAN's economies.Finally, the paper puts forward some proposals on Chinese policy maker on how to promote the Sina-ASEAN intra-industry trade.