Comparing Research On China And ASEAN Agricultural Products Trade

Agricultural products are traditional trade products for China and ASEAN. Agricultural products trade between China and ASEAN has developed for a long time. In 2002, China- ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) set to be built, and then two years later the early harvest program was put into effect. Since then, China and ASEAN bilateral agricultural products trade has developed quickly. According to custom's statistics, the sum of China and ASEAN bilateral agricultural products trade was up to 2.79 billion dollars in 2005, which increased 12.5% comparing with that in 2004. Particularly, the sum of we imported from ASEAN reached to 1.72 billion dollars and the sum of we exported to ASEAN was up to 1.07 billion dollars. Our adverse balance of trade in the agricultural products trade with ASEAN was 650 million dollars in 2005, which exceeded that in 2004 by 90 million dollars. Under the quick development of China and ASEAN bilateral agricultural products trade, are their trade relations competitive or collaborative? This thesis will give the answers. Furthermore, thesis will try to give some suggestions, which will be in favor of agricultural products trade between China and ASEAN developing in right direction.At first, thesis introduces the explanation about industries or products competition ability in international trade theories, and then it discusses the concept, the influence factors and estimating method of agricultural products'competition ability. In the next chapter, thesis compares the sale situation of every country's agricultural products in world market and China-ASEAN market. On the basis of double-digit agriculture classification in SITC, by calculating RTA index and OBC index, thesis analyzes China and ASEAN's relations in bilateral agricultural products trade. According to calculating result, we get the conclusion that China and ASEAN complement in total, while compete in part. For example, in 2004,China and ASEAN competed in sugar, sugar preparations and honey, meat and preparations, fish, crustacean and mollusks, and preparations thereof, miscellaneous edible products and preparations, crude animal and vegetable materials, vegetables and fruit, coffee, tea, cocoa, spices, and manufactures thereof, tobacco and tobacco manufactures.Complementary relation is the base of China and ASEAN bilateral agricultural products trade. In the procession of constructing CAFTA, China and ASEAN countries should adjust their agricultural production structure and agriculturalproducts trading structure, and put more effort into producing superior agricultural products while cut down or give up producing inferior agricultural products. At the same time, China and ASEAN should cooperate in other aspects of agricultural production, such as agricultural technology, mutual investment and so on.