Abstract: Based on the Regional Trade Agreement database and other data sources, this paper investigates the depth of services trade provisions in China’s main free trade agreements and analyzes its impact on the domestic and foreign added value in China’s exports of service industry and manufacturing industry. The major results show that the depth of services trade provisions restrains the domestic added value in the exports of service industry, and the restraining effect exists in the both exports of the intermediate service and the final service. As for the foreign value added effect, the depth of services trade provisions has expanded the foreign added value from China’s FTA partners in the exports of service trade and reduced those added value from the third countries, which indicates that China’s services trade provisions might have caused the trade diversion from non-partner to partner countries. The depth of services trade provisions has significantly promoted the domestic and foreign added value in the exports of manufacturing industry, especially the exports of those final goods manufacturing industry. It is noteworthy that the depth of services trade provisions has also the promotion effect on the foreign added value from the third countries in the exports of China’s manufacturing industry, which indicates that it has the spillover effect in the added values of trade creation.

Key words: depth of service trade provisions; export of service trade; added value of export