The Analysis On Chinese Agricultural Products Exported To EU

In recent years, agricultural products trade issues from China to EU are rapidlybecoming a hot point in Sino-EU economic and trade relations. EU is one of the mostimportant trade partners of China，and as the largest export and import party in theworld，also is the second largest agricultural products export market of China.Therefore, it is meaningful to the development of Sino-EU trade that we should paymuch attention to studying the character of the agricultural products trade and thefactors which influence the bilateral trade between China and EU.Nowadays, the agricultural products export of China to EU has made greatachievements since recent years. The EU is China’s second largest export market foragricultural products, and maintain steady up tendency. But the situation of Chineseagricultural products exported to EU is experiencing a new change because of thefinancial crisis. The dissertation analyzes the trade scale, product structure and districtstructure of the agricultural product export from China to EU and discusses thecharacter of Sino-EU agricultural product trade. At present, the main agriculturalproducts China export to EU are aquatic products, animal products, vegetables, fruitsand so on. The main import countries are France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spainand UK.The related indexes are used in this paper to analyze the competitiveness ofChinese agricultural products in the EU and compare its changes before and after theglobal financial crisis. Moreover, the financial crisis influence transmissionmechanism and Gravity Model are adapted to study main factors which affectSino-EU agricultural products trade as follows: EU demand of agricultural products,agricultural products trade protectionism and exchange rate factors. Lastly, this paperuses the “Gravity Model” and the “constant market share model (CMS model)” tomake an empirical analysis on the cause of Chinese agricultural exported to EUchanges before and after financial crisis. The result shows that the demand changes ofthe EU agricultural products import, Agricultural products import dependence and RMB real effective exchange rate affect the Chinese agricultural products exportedobviously. After financial crisis, the rising overall competitiveness of Chineseagricultural products exported to EU and fitting to the structural change of the EUdemand market are key factors of promoting the growth of agricultural productsexported to EU. According to the different types of agricultural products,countermeasures are put forward to improve Chinese agricultural products exported toEU.