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The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has brought closer economic and trade ties among its members, and also brought closer supply chains and upstream and downstream ties among member country in electronics, technology equipment, etc. Smartphones are an indispensable necessity in today's world and a major component of electronic products. In the circulation among RCEP member country, the production and trade of smartphones are particularly important. The theory used in this article is the gravitational model, and some adjustments are made on the basis of the gravity model to analyze the trade volume of smartphones between RCEP member country and CHINA. This paper uses the econometric method of the least squares estimation (OLS) method, uses the smartphone panel data of CHINA and its 14 trading country for regression analysis, and measures the export potential between CHINA and other RCEP member country, which can provide relevant reference for CHINA's trade system and strategy.
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