Sino-japanese Trade In Agricultural Products Complementary

Agricultural products are the important composition of trade between China and Japan. The subject of this research is the complementarity of trade between the two countries The aim of this research is to analyze and determine the comparative advantage of bilateral produce trade, and to validate the complementarity and its cause of the two countries trade structure, and to deduce the prospect of the two a. countries produce trade ,and to lodge China's necessary measures. There are seven main parts in this paper. The first part explains the background , the purpose, the theoretic and practical meaning of this research. The second part is the theoretic basic and research method of this paper. First, several typical theories of nternational trade comparative advantage are discussed. Secondly, six kind of mensuration means and two indexes of bilateral trade comparative advantage are analyzed to clarify their virtue and limitation. Finally, the research method of this paper and its new viewpoints are enucleated. In this paper, for the first time, the comparative advantage and complementation of thos important agricultural products in the trade between China and Japan are studied quantitatively. The index, relative trade advantage (RTA), is applied to determin ., the comparative advantage of some varieties of agricultural product trade betwee the two countries. Then the index OBC is calculated to verify the complementati of the bilateral trade structure, and the trade intensity index is used to supplement the measurement result of OBC. This part is one of the emphases of this paper. The third part illustrates the change of trade pattern between China and Japan. First, the supply of and requirement for Chinese agricultural products, agricultural policy and trade pattern are analyzed to explain how Chinese produce market has changed since the reform of system and the opening to the world. Secondly, the change of Japanese produce market since 30 years ago are analyzed. Finally, the pattern of bilateral produce trade between China and Japan since their association normalization. The fourth part studies the determining factors of bilateral trade relation. Those factors are :(l)the difference desc.urce gift of the two countries (2 thc dir ference of income level and consumption structure (3)the difference of policy aim and intervention measure (4)the other factors. In this part, the influence on bilateral trade relation by those factors are discussed. The fifth part is another emphasis in this paper. Corn, soybean, tea, aquatic product, poultry, rice, and vegetable are chosen to be studied. Their trade complexnentation between Chine and Japan are analyzed. By calculating RTA and OBC, following conclusion is reached: Chinese corn (before 1994) , soybean (before 1995) , poultry, tea, and aquatic product have comparative advantage over Japan's; and Japan has no advantage. In those products, the bilateral trade has complementation on Japanese market. Meanwhile, the emulants against Chinese produce on Japanese market are studied. In the sixth part, after analyzing the reform of trade system of China, Japan and the world, the respect of agricultural product trade between China and Japan are forecast. Then, the following...