An Analysis Of The Agricultural Product Trade Friction Between China And Japan And Countermeasures

Since the 1980′s, the progress of the economics globalization has speeded up obviously. Trades between countries develop quickly which make the relationship between countries deepen. China and Japan are two neighboring countries separated by sea, plus they are also significant trade partners to each other. The trade of agricultural products is of great important to China and Japan .That's because Japan is an island country and short of natural resources, and the aging of population and part-job are serious. The agricultural product can not be self-sufficient except for rice, the rate of agricultural product is very low, and therefore it largely counts on imported agricultural product. On the contrary, China is rich in natural resources, and agricultural product is not only to meet national consumption but also to export to aboard. China being the neighboring country of Japan becomes the main agricultural product country of Japan not only because of its cheap but also the low transport charge and the short time of shipment. At the same time, Japan is also the biggest export market of our country's agricultural product. From the year 2001 to 2007 the volume of agricultural product trade between China and Japan expands years by year. While in the year of 2008 the volume of agricultural product trade between China and Japan slightly declined because of international economic situation as well as Japan domestic severe economy.However, with the constant growth of the volume of agricultural product trade, the frictions of agricultural product trade between China and Japan have never stopped. In the year of 2001, the Japanese government announced that it would execute emergent restriction measures on the importation of scallion, fresh mushroom and grass which 99% came from China. This is obviously discriminatory policy aiming at our country, which made the trade friction between China and Japan heat up. Which is more seriously is"Positive List System"that implemented by Japan in the year of 2006, the scope of its limited extended to all agricultural product, including the most strict standard of"all standards", which had an even larger impact on the exportation of our country's agricultural product and made the trade friction of agricultural product between China and Japan become more serious. Global economic crisis in 2008 hit Japanese domestic economy hardly which made the situation of Japanese domestic economy grim. In order to divert domestic attention, Japan stepped up the frequency of inspection, which made the trade of agricultural product between China and Japan. In the large economic environment, it is important to recall the evolution of the agricultural product trade friction between China and Japan, analysis the reasons of the agricultural product trade friction between China and Japan from international aspect and Chinese and Japanese aspects and putting forward corresponding countermeasures and suggestions.In chapter one, the paper systematically analysis the development of the agricultural product trade between China and Japan. It is known that China is one of the important sources of Japanese agricultural product and Japan is the most important exporter of agricultural product, agricultural product trade between China and Japan develops rapidly. However we can find out problems between China and Japan from the table of the exportation from our country to Japan that the share of our country exportation to Japan in our total exportation declined. There is a critical issue that the agricultural product trade friction between China and Japan. Following it has a simple review on the trade friction of the agricultural product trade between China and Japan and analyzes new trade barriers that Japan implements us, under the influence of these trade barriers ,the exportation of our country's agricultural product to Japan is holdup .Thus sums up the features of the trade friction. The analysis of the trade friction of China and Japan is not limited to describe, but in order to find out the reasons of the trade friction of the agricultural product trade between China and Japan.Chapter two is based on chapter one, it analyzes the causes of the trade friction between China and Japan from there aspects: the limitation of WTO system, Japan and China. From the point of international factor, WTO exceptions apply excuses for countries that deliberately restrict on importation of agricultural product. Japan is good at using the relevant provisions of WTO in order to improve its economy. The emergent restriction on exportation of scallion, fresh mushroom and grass is a good example. From the point of Japan, it initiated agricultural product trade friction between China and Japan, so that it can ensure its agriculture and the employment of the farmers and safeguard the stability of the society. Moreover, the restriction measures of Japan also have something to do with political factors and the contend of domestic interest groups. From the point of Chinese factor, our agricultural product can not reach the standard of Japan's ,including excessive pesticide of some agricultural product , which we can conquer through technological innovation, strengthening inspection and supervision in the process of production and transportation ; and our categories of the product is few, the structure of the exportation market is single, all of which have a big impact on Japanese agricultural product, which endangers Japanese farmers and the trade friction is inevitable. In addition, the price competition of Chinese enterprises is also part reason of the trade friction between China and Japan. Then it analyses the influence from two aspects respectively. Due to the influence of"Positive List System"and other trade barriers, the cost of our agricultural product rises and the comparative advantage is also weakened. What′s the worse, the quantity of agricultural product′s exportation is also reduced. It also has a negative influence on Japan, because Japan's emergent restrictions lead us to take tariff measures to Japan exportation product that made Japan exportation to China suffer a lot. What is more, the benefits of Japanese customers are affected under the influence of the trade friction.At last, in chapter three first analyses the basis of agricultural product trade between China and Japan. China and Japan has a long history of trade. They are complementary in agricultural product trade. Which reflects in the geographical proximity, low transport cost, different endowments and consumers'preferences and etc? They are all good for the development of agricultural product trade between China and Japan. Then because China and Japan have many good factors, the paper puts forward countermeasures and suggests according to above causes from two aspects. The paper thinks first we should improve the agricultural trade associations, as the intermediaries between government and enterprises, which plays a very important role. Such as applying policies for enterprises, negotiating with overseas countries and etc. It also provides new technical standards and chances of corporation with abroad for our agricultural product enterprises. Then we should improve the quality of our agricultural product, increase technology content of the product and enrich the exportation items to meet Japanese consumers′preference; we should diversify exportation markets, open up potential markets to avoid the excess of Japanese market; we also should make fully use of the rules of WTO to protect our own benefits and create good outside environment for the exportation of agricultural product in order to promote the healthy development of the agricultural product trade between China and Japan.