Measurement Analysis of Trade Facilitation in China-asean Free Trade Area

Economic and trade cooperation between China and ASEAN countries has made new progress with the introduction of the concept of Belt and Road. In 2015, China and ASEAN formally signed the outcome document of negotiations on an upgraded free trade area, which shows that China-asean relations have became better. Enhancing the trade facilitation level of the Free Trade Area can improve the economic and trade exchanges between China and ASEAN. The premise of studying how to improve the trade facilitation level of Free Trade Area is to measure the trade facilitation level of free trade area. In this paper, trade facilitation is divided into four categories and 19 sub-indexes, and the measurement model of trade facilitation in free trade area is established to measure the trade facilitation level between China and ASEAN countries.