The Impact Of Carbon Tariffs On Enterprises Export In Suzhou Industrial Park And Its Countermeasures

Along with globalization and its increasing impact on environment, greenhouse gas(GHG) emission and duty allocation of GHG mitigation are becoming hot topics forpoliticians and academics around the world. Although the international enthusiasm forGHG mitigation at country level has cooled down with the ending of Phase I of The Kyotoprotocol in2012, appeal for protecting climate and environment still arouse support,among which “carbon tax” was approved by Europe and America. According to Europeanaviation carbon tax policy, since January1,2012, all flights within the territory of theEuropean Union are granted with limited GHG emissions; whilst United State may chargedeveloping ocuntries, such as China, India and Brazil for carbon tariff. Consider multiplefactors including international trade status, GHG emission status and future trend, thatChina is the largest GHG contributor and labour-and energy-intensive exporter, it burdensmuch GHG emissions for those importers, which mean it has to pay carbon tariff for them.Thus, China state and local governments are in urgent needs to analyze the influence ofcarbon tariff and solutions to provide scientific and solid spport for internationalnegotiation and policy making.To analyze and solve the problem, the paper took Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), whichranks first in China and rely heavily on export, as study case. We caculated local carbontariff, analyzed its influence on local economy and major export industries, to figure outthe relevant countermeasures for enterprises. First, the mechanism of carbon leakage andcarbon tariff were introduced, following which, we calculated embodied carbon and carbontariff with three kinds of tariff rate from2008to2011, results show that SIP should pay for0.41billion RMB as carbon triff in2011, the charge amount accounted for0.2%of thetotal export. Then, Scenario Analysis Method (SAM) was applied to predict thedevelopment trend of carbon tariff during2012and2020and major influenced industries,which include paper manufacturing, dye and nonmetallic mineral manufacturing industry.Finally, the paper provides different countermeasures to cope with carbon tariff from aspects of production and management, in accordance with the impact degree of differentindustries. Enterprises should improve production efficiency and explore new market.