中荷之间的任务贸易

在经济全球化时代,随着交易成本的降低和世界性专业化分工,国际贸易特征发生变化。任务贸易理论将替代李嘉图的比较优势理论。文章试图利用任务贸易理论来解释中荷之间的贸易。荷兰是通往欧洲腹地的通道,而中国负责为荷兰进行产品的生产和组装。这些都是典型的服务外包任务。

Trade in Tasks Between China and Netherlands

In this era of globalization,with decreasing transaction costs and world wide specialization,the character of international trade changes.The traditional trade in products in line with the Ricardian theory of comparative advantages is replaced by a trade in tasks.This paper discusses the trade between China and the Netherlands from that perspective.We find that Dutch in-house offshoring to China and the Dutch distribution function can explain a large part of trade between these two countries.Thus,the Netherlands fulfils the distributional role of gateway to the European hinterland for China,while China acts as producer and assembler of goods for the Netherlands.These are typical examples of outsourcing tasks,rather than outsourcing the production of goods.