플랜트 수출 지원을 위한 선진국의 공적수출신용 제도의 활용 실태와 시사점

Abstract

With liquidity lacking throughout the world in recent years, the importance of financing has become more important in the export of plants. Demanding much fund, plant exports pose great political risk from importing countries. In short, the law of large numbers is not applicable in this sector so that commercial financial institutions are usually hesitant to participate, leading to market failure in often cases. To facilitate plant exports, many countries around the world use official export credit to grant policy support. As such, advanced countries have adopted the international rules such as WTO ASCM and OECD Arrangement for Officially Supported Export Credits to prevent these credits from being used as a form of subsidy. Upon analyzing these international rules on export credits, this paper 1) exams the advantages and disadvantages of the officially supported export credit programs including direct lending, export guarantee/insurance, interest rate support, etc., 2) investigates how advanced countries such as the U.S., Germany and France operate their programs within the scope of the WTO /OECD rules to support plant exports, and 3) compares those export credit programs of these advanced countries. By doing so, the paper suggests some of the implications as well as the ways to improve its system and operation for Korea.