Study On Agricultural Trade Between China And South Korea

Since China and South Korea established diplomatic relations twenty years ago, the political relations and trade relations between the two countries develop steadily. The trade turnover keeps expanding, Industrial cooperation has both depth and breadth, Cooperation mechanisms and dialogue mechanisms in all aspects are formed gradually. The Bilateral trade is booming. However the development rapid of agricultural product trade in slow. And the role of agriculture in the national economy status can not be belittled, agriculture is the foundation industry related to the survival and development, China is the most populous developing country in the world, China’s agricultural development is particularly important, South Korea’s agricultural resources are relatively scarce, the export of agricultural products is rarely. Agricultural products trade between the two countries has many problems, but also more prominent. The bilateral trade volume in1992from$5030million to$245630million in2011,20years increased by48.8times. Agricultural products trade increase rate far behind the trade development speed, only grew from$1070million to$6480million with an increase of6.3times. South Korea’s agricultural products import from China have a large quantity of small profit, low degree of processing and suffer from South Korea’s trade barriers more seriously. That causes our country a low share in South Korea’s market of agricultural products. China’s agricultural products lack of brand awareness, labor-intensive and resource-intensive products are more, However, with the advantage of labor in our country gradually disappear, the further development has to meet the serious bottleneck. Trade protectionism in all kinds of agricultural products in the field of South Korea includes tariff barriers, barriers to customs procedures, discriminatory barriers, animal and plant health measures, First, industrial products MFN tariff rate is only6.6%, while the MFN tariff rate of agricultural products amounted to48.5%, for7times as much. Secondly, South Korea has taken on agricultural product inspection, customs clearance before tax review measures of the customs clearance time delay, and this kind of inspection, review this lack of transparency, no justice at all. Finally, South Korea makes that to buy domestic products spirit insert deeply into people’s heart. Demonize China products, the adverse impact on China’s exports hinders China’s agricultural products export to South Korea.Our country should increase support for agricultural development. For China’s exports of agricultural products production technology, invested large amounts of funds, personnel, improve the quality of agricultural products, agricultural standardization production system to establish the modern. Increase the intensity of the quality supervision system of agricultural products, as for full-time staff at all levels of the detection mechanism construction of agricultural products detection, supporting advanced equipment, to further ensure the quality of export of agricultural products. Develop China’s processing industry of agricultural products, increase the added value of agricultural products. Get rid of agricultural products of large amount of thin profits of the embarrassing situation, we must vigorously develop the agricultural product brand. According to the characteristics of China’s agricultural products which export to South Korea, We have to achieve targeted collection Korea technical barriers to trade information, and in a timely manner to the latest developments in Korea Agricultural Technical Barriers to trade to China related businesses, for enterprises to provide information consulting services, to make China’s agricultural products meet the international standards and South Korea’s request, take the initiative to deal with South Korea’s all kinds of technical barriers to trade.