The invention relates to a method for producing oxalic ester by 
gas phase CO 
coupling, which mainly solves the problems of low selectivity of the target product oxalic ester and low conversion per pass of the raw materials in the prior art. In the method, a technical scheme is adopted as follows: CO and 
nitrous acid ester in mol ratio of 1-5:1 are used as raw materials; a first batch of 
raw material as a 
cooling medium passes through tubes of a first tube-type 
fixed bed reactor, after heat exchange, enters a second 
fixed bed reactor, contacts with a 
palladium-containing catalyst II in a catalyst 
bed II in the reactor for reaction to generate a reaction 
effluent I containing the oxalic ester; and a 
gas phase effluent II containing CO is obtained by gas-liquid separation of the reaction 
effluent I, and is uniformly mixed with a second batch of 
raw material containing the fresh component 
nitrous acid ester, and the mixture is returned into the first tube-type 
fixed bed reactor, contacts with a 
palladium-containing catalyst I in a catalyst 
bed I outside the tubes for reaction to generate the reaction effluent containing the oxalic ester, wherein the total mol ratio of CO to 
nitrous acid ester in the 
raw material is 1-4:1, the mol ratio of the second batch of 
nitrous acid ester to the first batch of 
nitrous acid ester material is 0.2-5:1, and at least two reactors are connected in series. By using the method, the problems can be better solved and the method can be used in the industrial production for increasing the yield of the oxalic ester.