China S Trade Patterns And International Comparative Advantage

This book outlines the process of China's trade reforms over the past two decades and assesses the impact of these reforms on the economy. The author provides a detailed quantitative analysis to trace China's evolving commodity pattern of trade and changing comparative advantage structure over the entire reform period.

China’s trade surplus is an essential question, but there are many popular misconceptions about it, a fact that prompted the creation of this book, On China's Trade Surplus. It will help readers to understand the manner in which China’s foreign trade and China’s role in global trade have developed, and to how to benefit from trade with China. In this book, many hot topics are analyzed, such as: What promotes China’s trade surplus? Why doesn’t it have a trade deficit? What are the relations between trade frictions and China’s trade surplus, and how can trade frictions be reduced? What is the deeper meaning of the U.S. trade deficit with China?

In less than three decades, China has grown from playing a negligible role in international trade to being one of the world's largest exporters, a substantial importer of raw materials, intermediate outputs, and other goods, and both a recipient and source of foreign investment. Not surprisingly, China's economic dynamism has generated considerable attention and concern in the United States and beyond. While some analysts have warned of the potential pitfalls of China's rise—the loss of jobs, for example—others have highlighted the benefits of new market and investment opportunities for US firms. Bringing together an expert group of contributors, China's Growing Role in World Trade undertakes an empirical investigation of the effects of China's new status. The essays collected here provide detailed analyses of the microstructure of trade, the macroeconomic implications, sector-level issues, and foreign direct investment. This volume's careful examination of micro data in light of established economic theories clarifies a number of misconceptions, disproves some conventional wisdom, and documents data patterns that enhance our understanding of China's trade and what it may mean to the rest of the world.

This paper examines the extent to which the growth of China and India in world markets is affecting the patterns of trade specialization in Latin American economies. The authors construct Vollrath's measure of revealed comparative advantage by 3-digit ISIC sector, country, and year. This measure accounts for both imports and exports. The empirical analyses explore the correlation between the revealed comparative advantage of Latin America and the two Asian economies. Econometric estimates suggest that the specialization pattern of Latin A-with the exception of Mexico-has been moving in opposite direction of the trade specialization pattern of China and India. Labor-intensive sectors (both unskilled and skilled) probably have been negatively affected by the growing presence of China and India in world markets, while natural resource and scientific knowledge intensive sectors have probably benefited from China and India's growth since 1990.

This book collects OECD work that builds on recent contributions to the theory and empirics of comparative advantage, putting particular emphasis on the role policy can play in shaping trade.

This study undertakes a detailed analysis of secular trends in China's trade and "revealed" comparative advantage (RCA) for roughly two decades starting in the mid-1960s. The empirical analysis shows China has a revealed comparative advantage in a relatively broad range of products, and that almost all of these items are labor intensive in production or require inputs of specialized natural resource materials. Aside from Japan, Singapore and Malaysia, China's RCA profile resembles those of other regional economies like Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Taiwan which have largely built their exports base on labor intensive products. These data suggest that unless intra-industry trade is accelerated the potential for regional trade conflicts is greater than that for regional integration. The results suggest that China is currently one of the least mature of the Asian economies and that its future revealed comparative advantage will likely experience a high degree of change.

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 2,0, University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: Since 1978 the economic reform process in China has been in progress. It transformed the economy of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from a centrally planned into a socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics. A basic feature of this reformation was the encouragement of foreign direct investment inflows as well as the liberalization of trade in China. In the present essay, I will trace the evolution of trade patterns together with their associated consequences on China’s industrial structure.