Firms’ Responding to China’s Free Trade Agreements

Abstract

Recently, the process of liberalizing world trade based on multilateral trade has inevitably slowed down, meanwhile, East Asian countries further developing bilateral trade. In order to understand of Chinese firms in FTA field, optimising their FTA use and enhancing their ability in international business. This paper focuses on the development and main impacts of China’s FTAs and how Chinese firms respond to China’s FTAs. This topic covers the macro perspective of China’s FTA strategies of the micro perspective of the factors thereof affecting firms using FTAs, as well as the reasons why firms decide not to use FTAs.