Empirical analysis of effect of environmental regulations on export of China′s textile and garment

As the government′s social intervention,the impact of environmental regulations on industrial economy and trade is an important and worthy-of-discussion issue.Textile and garment industry is taken as an example to explore the impact of domestic environmental regulations on the trade.On the basis of builoling of the strength index system of environmental regulations and analysis the theoretical basis of acting mechanism of environmental regulations on the trade,metering econometric models is used to investigate the impact of environmental regulations on textile and garment export trade.Studies suggest that the impact of environmental regulations on textile and garment export trade is negative.The raise of environmental cost makes textile and garment products loose their price advantage and suffocate the export.However,this negative effect is only temporary.Form a long-term perspective,with the gradual perfecting of the standard of the industrial environment and strict implementation of environmental regulations,our textile and garment products will have the international environmental competitiveness.This will lead to freeing from the restrictions of green trade barriers on the international market and be conducive to the export trade.