被忽视的经济增长机遇——中美商业服务贸易

• 作 者: J.Bradford Jensen 本刊编辑
• 机 构: 乔治敦大学商学院,
• 出 处: 新金融评论
• 发表日期: 2013年03期
• 关键词: 服务贸易 政策障碍 服务业贸易 广告推广 增长机遇 贸易逆差 中间投入 相对价格 生产率增长 就业人数

当前中美之间有一项重要的商贸机会——商业服务贸易一直被忽视。美国已经连续多年存在大量贸易逆差,亟需扩大出口,尤其是对那些经济增长较快的发展中国家的出口。对中国来说,提高制造业的价值链就需要获得工程、设计、开发、检验、市场营销、广告推广、物流和配送等多方面的高效尖端服务。目前中国的商业服务业规模还比较小,收费也比较高。虽然长期来看,教育可以解决这个问题,但短期来看,进口服务是一个合适的选择。很多服务都是可交易的,但中国对服务业贸易设置的壁垒还是较多。中美之间的商业服务贸易可开发的潜力很大,这也将给两个国家带来好处。当然,抓住这个机遇就必须要减少政策障碍。

At present, there is an important business opportunity between China and the United States - trade in commercial services has always been neglected. The United States has been experiencing a large number of trade deficits for many years in a row, and it urgently needs to expand its exports, especially to those developing countries that have enjoyed rapid economic growth. For China, raising the manufacturing value chain requires highly efficient cutting-edge services in engineering, design, development, inspection, marketing, advertising, logistics and distribution. At present, the scale of China’s commercial service industry is still relatively small, and fees are relatively high. Although education can solve this problem in the long run, in the short term import services are a suitable choice. Many services are tradable, but China still has more barriers to trade in services. There is great potential for the development of trade in commercial services between China and the United States, which will also bring benefits to both countries. Of course, to seize this opportunity, we must reduce the policy barriers.