중국 산동성의 FTA 활용현황에 관한 실증연구

According to the survey on the state of practical usage and present situation of FTAs,conducted among trade companies operating in Shandong province in 2014, more than 90%of companies are believed to be small and medium sized enterprises. Therefore this studytries to test what impact the awareness and utilization of an FTA have on its outcomeamong trade companies operating in Shandong province as well as partner countries andother trade companies. The research results are as follows. First, we found a positive correlation between 1) a company’s global orientation (asmeasured in export density as a percentage of profit) and 2) its competitiveness (asmeasured in annual sales), and a company’s degree of utilization of FTA provisions. Second, One of the findings is that the more aware of the (exporting) HS code,conventional tariffs and the process of issuing C/O the companies from Shandong provinceare the more they actually use (utilize) an FTA inpractice. Another interesting finding is thatthe more aware of the (exporting) HS code and conventional tariffs the enterprises are thehigher is their practical usage level of an FTA. Third, however, at the time of this study’s completion, FTA utilization was not yetpositively correlated with statistically significant performance results. Therefore, to increase the utilization and performance of FTA, the China government haveto make a efficient business models for each industry and support the small and mid-sizebusinesses including Shandong province’s SMEs.