The impact of green barriers in EU countries on China's aquatic product exports

Abstract

Against the backdrop of increasingly stringent green trade barriers, China's aquatic product exports to the European Union have been continuously affected by growing environmental regulations. Based on this situation, this paper uses an improved trade gravity model and collects trade volume data from 2002 to 2023 for China's exports of aquatic products to 10 major EU countries. By applying a fixed effect model and combining it with the instrumental variable method, it empirically analyzes the impact of the EU's green barrier policies on China's aquatic product exports and its mechanism of action. The empirical results show that the EU's green barriers have a significant negative impact on China's aquatic product exports. Based on this result, this paper systematically summarizes the impact mechanism of the EU's green barrier policies on China's aquatic product exports through a combination of qualitative analysis and quantitative empirical research, with the aim of providing quantitative evidence and strategic suggestions for the government to formulate aquatic product export policies, promote enterprise compliance upgrades, and enhance international competitiveness.