A Study On The Export Structure Of The Meat Product Of China

During the past ten years, the world meat production, consumption and trade developed rapidly, and this offers a good opportunity for China. China's meat production has always been the first place in the world, but the performance of meat exported by China in global market was bad. It is significance to research the commodity structure and market structure of meat exported by China, and it is significance for China's meat export growth rapidly and for China's becoming one of the largest countries of meat trade from one of the largest countries of meat production. With the direction of theories of international trade, trade economics, industry economics and quantitative economics, this paper comprehensively analyses the commodity and market structure of meat exported from China by using various methods such as empirical analysis and normative analysis, quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis.Based on the above analyses, it comes to the conclusion that China's meat export has a significant change before and after China entered into WTO. The value and the share in global market of meat exported from China decreased during 1996-1999. After entry into WTO, the value of meat exported from China has increased, but China's share in global meat export market has still decreased. Diversification and evenness of commodity structure of meat exported by China has been improved, but the dispersion has weakened. And the dispersion, diversification, evenness of China's meat export has weakened. The commodity and market structure of meat exported by China were highly centralized and poorly adapted. Further analysis on the meat export from China to major target markets such as Japan, Russia and South Korea, we find that the commodity structure and market structure of meat export from China to these markets were also highly centralized and poorly adapted. The main meat commodity exported from China is 1602 (Prepared or preserved meat, meat offal and blood, nes), and China's meat export market relies on Japan highly. This is not beneficial to the growth of China's meat export.The result of the constant market share model shows that commodity and market structure of meat exported by China had less influence on the growth of meat export before China entered into WTO. Since China entered into WTO, commodity structure of meat exported by China has promoted the meat export of China. But the market structure of meat exported by China has restricted the meat export of China.