Research On The Impact Of Trade Facilitation On The Status Of China’s Manufacturing Export Network

Upgrading and optimizing the export commodity structure of China’s manufacturing industry is one of the essentials for the highquality development of China’s trade.However,with the deepening of global economic linkage,the adverse impact of trade costs on manufacturing trade has been cumulatively amplified.Trade facilitation aims to reduce trade costs and become a new breakthrough in promoting trade development.Exploring the impact of trade facilitation on the position of China’s manufacturing industry and its different factorintensive products in the global trade network will help enrich research on optimizing the structure of China’s manufacturing exports.Based on the global manufacturing bilateral export data from 2008 to2019,this paper uses the systematic GMM model to explore the impact of bilateral trade facilitation on China’s manufacturing export network status and the influence mechanism from the perspective of network centrality.The results show that China is at a sub-center position in the global technology-intensive product trade network,and is in the core position at the global capital-intensive product trade network and labor-intensive product trade network.The structure of China’s manufacturing export commodities shows a good trend of developing towards mid-to-high end.Improving the level of bilateral trade facilitation between China and other countries can significantly improve the export network status of China’s technology-intensive products and capital-intensive products,and it will have a greater effect on the former,but it will not significantly improve the export network status of labor-intensive products.Improving bilateral trade facilitation can enhance export network status of China’s technology-intensive product and capital-intensive product by increasing China’s betweenness centrality in the global trade network.Improving bilateral trade facilitation will strengthen China’s dependence on a few countries,but it will not hinder the rise of China’s manufacturing export network status.Therefore,China should strengthen the construction and cooperation with other countries in terms of trade facilitation,improve the ability of independent innovation,and promote the development of China’s manufacturing export commodity structure to the middle and high-end direction by improving China’s ability to control resources in the process of exporting technology-intensive products and capital-intensive products.11 figures,13 tables and 102 references are included in this paper.