Abstract: At the time of the digital wave and global governance transformation, government digital governance has become the core driving force for promoting a country’s green trade development, which is of great significance for enhancing a country’s trade competitiveness. Based on the panel data from the member countries of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, this study explores the impact and mechanism of government digital governance on green products exports. The findings show that government digital governance has significantly promoted the export of green products, and this conclusion still holds true after a series of endogeneity and robustness tests. Enhancing information flow efficiency, leading to the expansion of intermediate goods demand, promoting industrial structure upgrading, and improving green technology research and development capabilities are important mechanisms for government digital governance to promote green products exports. The promotion effect of government digital governance on the export of green products is greater in countries with stronger innovation capabilities and smaller digital gaps, while the promotion effect of government digital governance on the export of medium and high-tech and low tech green products is stronger. However, in countries with relatively low environmental regulatory intensity, government digital governance is not conducive to the export of green products. Based on this, the government should follow the trend of digital development, strengthen the value leading role of digital governance, build diversified application scenarios that deeply integrate digital technology and government governance models, and empower the development of green trade with modern governance models.

Key words: government digital governance, green products export, information flow efficiency, expansion of demand for intermediate goods