Abstract

This paper documents the importance of trade in services for global value chain participation in the ASEAN region. Using newly created data on GVCs as well as a new database on the services trade restrictiveness index to connect international trade policies in services to participation in GVCs, we show that restrictions on trade in services are detrimental for backward participation in GVCs and that such restrictions are harmful to ASEAN members when compared to other countries in the data set. Also, we show that services trade restrictions are especially detrimental to ASEAN countries when such backward integration is connected to forward participation, hence, central positions in GVCs. Restrictions on trade in services slow down the upgrading of value chain positions, which calls for policy actions to follow up trade liberalization in industrial products with a new round of lower restrictions on services trade.

摘要

本文阐述了服务贸易对于东盟地区参与全球价值链的重要性。使用新创建的全球价值链数据以及新的服务贸易限制指数数据库将服务贸易政策与全球价值链参与联系起来，我们发现服务贸易限制不利于落后参与全球价值链，而且这种限制有利于全球价值链的参与。与数据集中的其他国家相比，对东盟成员国有害。此外，我们还表明，当这种后向一体化与前向参与（即全球价值链的中心地位）相关联时，服务贸易限制对东盟国家尤其不利。服务贸易限制减缓价值链地位升级，