TITLE:
The Impact of Green Trade Barriers on Chinese Tea Exports: A Gravity Model Study
AUTHORS:
Suitao Mou
KEYWORDS:
Green Trade Barriers, Gravity Model, Chinese Tea Exports
JOURNAL NAME:
Modern Economy,
Vol.14 No.12,
December
29,
2023
ABSTRACT: In recent years, with the intensification of the impact of reverse
globalization, many countries have used green trade barriers to restrict
China’s tea exports, so as to
protect their own trade. This paper composes and analyzes the theories related
to green trade barriers, explores the current situation of China’s tea exports
and its influence by green trade barriers, selects the data of China’s tea exports to 30 countries between 2001 and
2021, and uses the trade gravity model for empirical analysis to explore
the specific situation of China’s tea exports affected by green trade barriers.
The gravity model is a tool used to measure the impact of trade barriers on
international trade flows. It takes into account factors such as the countries’
gross domestic product, population size, distance between them and the trade
policies they have in place. The results show that the existence of green trade
barriers will lead to the decline of China’s tea exports. Finally, this paper
put forward countermeasure suggestions to deal with green trade barriers from
three levels: government, industry and tea enterprises.