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Trade Policy as Industrial Strategy: Beyond Tariffs to Input Access, Standards, and Learning Externalities
贸易政策作为产业战略：超越关税，聚焦投入品获取、标准制定与学习溢出效应
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Modern trade policy increasingly functions as industrial strategy—shaping domestic capabilities through rules governing inputs, standards, and knowledge flows.
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Tariff reductions matter less today than non-tariff measures affecting certification, data localization, and interoperability requirements.
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Export-oriented firms gain critical learning externalities when domestic regulations align with high-standard international markets.
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Strategic export restrictions on critical minerals or semiconductors reflect awareness that upstream control enables downstream industrial upgrading.
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Meanwhile, mutual recognition agreements on professional qualifications reduce barriers to services trade while raising domestic skill benchmarks.
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Industrial policy coherence requires trade negotiators to coordinate with innovation agencies, education ministries, and competition authorities.
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Importantly, protectionism fails when divorced from deliberate capacity-building—witness chronic underutilization of tariff-rate quotas in agriculture.
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Countries leveraging trade agreements for regulatory convergence gain faster technology absorption and stronger IP enforcement ecosystems.
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Yet such strategies demand robust monitoring mechanisms to prevent rent-seeking disguised as industrial upgrading.
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The most effective industrial-trade linkages emerge where domestic reform agendas are reinforced—not undermined—by external commitments.
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This transforms trade negotiations from zero-sum bargaining into structured learning environments for institutional development.
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Ultimately, competitiveness arises not from shielding firms, but from embedding them in globally coherent, domestically adaptive systems.