Abstract:In order to study the impact of Sino-US intellectual property rights disputes on China’s export of technology-intensive products. Based on the section 337 investigation, an important form of intellectual property disputes, this article analyzes the current status of section 337 investigations encountered by Chinese technology-intensive products during export to the United States, and the main reasons for frequent section 337 investigations. On this basis, the article analyzes the impact of intellectual property disputes on China’s export of technology-intensive products. The results show that the section 337 investigation has an inhibitory effect on China’s export of technology-intensive products to the United States. It has a significant negative effect on the export of technology-intensive products with different research intensities. Thereinto the effect of restraining the export technology-intensive products with high research-intensive is most obvious. In addition, the section 337 investigation has different degrees of inhibition on different types of technology-intensive products. Moreover, it has the largest restraint on the exports of the seventh and sixteenth technology-intensive products.