The Comparison of Agreement on Trade in Services Openness Degree among East Asia 's Major Economies and Taiwan's Trade in services strategy

• Main Authors: Hsu, Fu Hsiang, 許富翔
• Other Authors: Tung, Chen Yuan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61894774080067341765

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 國家發展研究所 === 102 === Services trade integration among the economies of East Asia has become an important issue in the region, and the development of Taiwan's trade in services is also vital to the future of Taiwan's economic structure transformation. The thesis uses Marchetti & Roy's quantification method to explore and analyze the openness to trade services agreement signed by the following major economies in East Asia: Taiwan, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. In addition, the thesis finishes Taiwan's trade in services strategy with literature analysis method, and test Taiwan's strategic effectiveness of trade in services by discussing the qualitative and quantitative results. There are three principal findings.First,in the overall openness level, the openness to agreement on trade in services of the East Asian economies are all quite high in the developed countries and in the world. In accordance with the open nature of its agreement on trade in services, the four economies can be divided into Taiwan and Japan, Singapore and South Korea two. Among them, Taiwan's free trade agreement openness with New Zealand and Singapore are high, while adopting a discriminatory treatment with that of China, a lower degree of openness than the GATS multilateral commitments. Second, in the level of individual services sectors, the data show that four economies have consistent status in the open departments fairly, yet the individual differences exist in few departments. Third, in Taiwan's Trade in services strategy part, the paper discuss the details of main official policy text,dividing them into overall strategy and individual policies. According to the results of a comprehensive analysis of the degree of openness and service strategy, the paper makes some policy recommendations on Taiwan's future development of the service industry priority, the specific open industry, and negotiating ways and objectives.