Dampak Trade Facilitation Terhadap Arus Perdagangan Sektor Manufaktur di Kawasan ASEAN+6

Abstract

Trade Facilitation is one of the mechanisms to support the trading flows, so the volume of trade between ASEAN member countries in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will increase in 2015.This study analysis the impact of trade facilitation to trading flow on manufactured sector in ASEAN+6. A Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) method is used to estimate the performance of comparative advantage on manufactured sector in ASEAN+6. China is the country that has the highest competitiveness on exporting manufacture, while Australia is the country that has the lowest competitiveness on exporting manufacture compared to other countries in ASEAN+6, in 2007 to 2012. Meanwhile, gravity panel data model is used to estimate the impact of trade facilitation to trading flow on manufactured sector in ASEAN+6, in 2007 to 2012. The results of the estimation and the analysis shows that the trading flow on manufactured sektor in ASEAN+6 is significantly influenced by these variables: GDP per capita of the exporting country, the GDP per capita of the importing country, exchange rate , economic distance, port efficiency, customs environment, regulatory environmentand the dummy crisis.