FTA 품목별원산지규정(PSR)의 적정성에 대한 연구

The Product Specific Rule(PSR) of the Free Trade Agreement(FTA) is firstly to prevent the trade deflection which takes advantage of preferential tariff. Secondly there is a hidden intention is to prevent a possibility of abuse for FTA preferential application on the Country’s own the sensitive products. This study researched on considerations for desirable PSR and proposed three-level decision model as the PSR decision model. According to this model, the optimum PSR of FTA should be decided through three-level procedures. The first phase is to set up standards of PSR about the items through an objective statistics data toward factors, such as trading situation of items, international competitiveness, unity & severity of PSR, customs tariff and localization ratio of required raw materials, what they bound up with purpose of PSR setting. The second phase is to draw the optimal PSR in the light of general standards, opinions of the interested parties and experts, industrial policy and trade policy. The third phase is to determine the final PSR in the light of the importance of elements contained in both first phase and second phase, the strength of negotiating counter country’s demand, and balance between other negotiation issues. The propriety of PSR of signed FTA could be evaluated by this model. The basic evaluation can be conducted firstly by the first stage elements and further, for comprehensive evaluation, by elements in second stage. This study is based on empirical analysis and evaluated propriety of PSR of signed 14 FTA with South Korea electing South Korea’s representative trading goods such as petroleum products, electronic integrated circuits and automobile parts. Analysis showed that the unity of PSR is lower at two items and the severity of PSR is higher than reasonable level at all of three items. These suggest that PSR may contribute negatively to FTA utilization in terms of export.