The Competitiveness of Korea-China-Japan agricultural products and Korea-China FTA Agricultural Trade impacts
2018
Nam, K.H., Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea | Li,T., Chinese Academ y of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
This study aim s to analyze the com petitiveness of agricultural products in Korea, China and Japan and the effect of increasing im ports from Korea and China. and then w e discussed how to cooperate in the agricultural trade field betw een the three countries. The results are sum m arized as follow s. First, The intra-industry trade of agricultural products was the m ost active in Korea and China, followed by the intra-industry trade index between Korea and Japan. The intra-industry trade betw een China and Japan w ere the lowest. Second, The m utual com plem entarity of agricultural products trade betw een Korea, China and Japan is m ostly high. Am ong them , Korea and Japan are the highest, w hile Japan and China have the low est com plem entarity. Third, it w as found that in tariff elim ination, im ports of rice and m eat products increased the m ost, w hile the im port grow th rate of green tea, m eat products and ginseng increased the m ost. Finally, the three countries in Korea, China, and Japan can consider the way to increase the trade of agricultural products in the region by internalizing the trade of com plem entary item s w hile m aintaining a constant level of production of m utually com petitive products.
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