The Impact of Competition Policy Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements on Intermediate Product Trade

 The deepening of the content of regional trade agreements has promoted the deep integration of global value chains. As an important part of the behind-the-border measures of regional trade agreements, competition policy provisions have an important impact on intermediate product trade. This paper constructs the depth index of competition policy provisions, uses the trade gravity model combined with Poisson's pseudo maximum likelihood estimation (PPML) and fixed effects to empirically analyze the impact of competition policy depth on the scale of intermediate product trade, and finally proposes policy recommendations for China to improve the construction level of regional trade agreements according to the conclusions.