Analysing Competitiveness by Service Classifications using EBOPS

서비스무역통계를 활용한 업종별 경쟁력 분석

The impact of global trade on developing countries is a critical subject. Especially in this country, under difficult conditions like political issues with North Korea, achieved a trade surplus of 90.2 billion dollars last year. While the service trade recorded a deficit of 15.7 billion dollars in the same period. According to WTO, services are either the result of a production activity that changes the conditions of the consuming units (transformation services), or facilitates the exchange of products or financial assets (margin services). To unify and compare with the trade and service statistics of countries, they assorted 12 classifications of services like Manufacturing service on physical inputs owned by others, Maintenance and repair service n.i.e., Transport, Travel, Construction, Insurance and pension service, Financial service, Charges for the use of intellectual property n.i.e., Telecommunications, Computer and information services, Other business services, Personal, cultural and recreational services, and Government goods and services n.i.e. Thus, this study is to estimate the international competitiveness of service trade between 2006 and 2015 in Republic of Korea, according to EBOPS 6th. As a result, total service volume of export and import has increased in the last 10 years. Its volume, recently, accounts for 22% of total goods trade. Also the Korean Government can make a supporting policy and decide a supporting business in terms of service trade. Finally, we can find a mutual connectivity within 12 service businesses and between Service and Goods.

2015년 우리나라는 약 9,632억 달러의 무역규모와 약 902억 달러의 상품무역흑자를 달성한 반면, 서비스무역은 약 152억 달러의 적자를 기록하였다. WTO에 따르면 서비스무역은 부가가치 및 고용 창출효과가 높고, 국민의 소득수준, 삶의 질 등과 밀접하게 연결되는 특성을 가지고 있다. 본 연구는 2006년부터 2015년까지 12개 항목의 서비스무역 세분류통계 정보를 분석하고 지난 10년간 업종별 서비스무역의 대외경쟁력을 측정해 보았다. 분석결과 첫째, 상품무역규모대비 서비스무역규모는 점차 증가하고 있다. 둘째, 서비스무역 업종별 경쟁력분석을 통해 정책의 수립 및 지원의 우선순위를 고려할 수 있다. 마지막으로 서비스무역 내 업종 간 연계성과 서비스무역과 상품무역 간 연계성을 고려한 정책과제 수립이 필요하다고 할 수 있다.