Deepening Digital Trade Rules to Promote the Upgrading of Guangdong Regional Value Chain

Abstract

At this stage, with the treacherous situation of international economic and trade relations, the trend of anti-globalization and the resurgence of trade protectionism, the traditional global multilateral trade negotiation system within the framework of the world trade organization is blocked, and a new pattern of the world economy with bilateral trade cooperation and regional economic integration as the main body is taking shape. China's formulation and deepening of digital trade rules is an important factor in realizing the leap in the embedded status of the global value chain. Only by fully understanding the game situation of global digital trade rules can we find out the pain points and difficulties of China in the negotiation of digital trade rules. The game focus of International Digital Trade Rules Negotiation mainly involves four aspects: tariff barriers, non-tariff barriers, consumer rights protection and digital trade facilitation. The current digital trade rule templates of developed countries such as the United States, Japan and Europe have some problems, such as the difficulty in dividing the ownership of tax rights and profits, the "two-level differentiation" of data value-added, the "catch-up trap" of low-end contract manufacturers, and the "technology gap" between chain owners and local enterprises in the global value chain. In this regard, it is suggested to establish and improve the data element market system, establish a supporting system for digital trade tax supervision, establish a support system conducive to the development of key digital technology industries, strengthen the talent agglomeration effect, promote the in-depth cooperation between industry, University and Research Institute, deeply tap the interests of the agreement, focus on the key nodes of the network, pool the rule consensus of developing countries, deepen the research on key digital trade rule issues, and explore a win-win model with developed countries.