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China's Agricultural Trade Costs : Measurement and Determinants

Creator	Creator Name Wang, Xuejun Affiliation Affiliation Name College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University
	Creator Name Han, Guizhi Affiliation Affiliation Name College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University
	Author PID K001624 Creator Name Maeda, Koshi 前田, 幸嗣マエダ, コウシ Affiliation Affiliation Name Laboratory of Quantitative Food Economic Analysis, Division of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University 九州大学大学院農学研究院農業資源経済学部門農業資源経済学講座食料経済分析学分野
	Creator Name Zhou, Yingheng Affiliation Affiliation Name College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University
Language	English
Publisher	Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University
Publisher	九州大学大学院農学研究院
Date	2016-02-29
Source Title	Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University
Vol	61
Issue	1
First Page	215
Last Page	223
Publication Type	Version of Record
Access Rights	open access
Crossref DOI	https://doi.org/10.5109/1564105

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PISSN	0023-6152
NCID	AA00697606
Record ID	1564105
Peer-Reviewed	Unrefereed
Subject Terms	Agriculture
	China
	Gravity
	Trade costs
ISSN	0023-6152
NCID	AA00697606
Notes	Trade costs involve important implications that partly determine a country's ability to integrate itself into a global trading system. The major purposes of this study are to analyze China's agricultural trade costs and the determinants of these costs. A micro–founded measure of trade frictions developed by Novy (2011) is applied to estimate an indirect measure of China's agricultural trade costs with a large cross–section dataset of its trading partners. The results show that China's agricultural trade costs experienced only a modest downward trend from 1995 to 2011. The weighted average tariff equivalent of trade costs is 141 percent in 2011, which is far higher than the world average. Statistical analyses of the determinants of China's agricultural trade costs suggest that geographical and cultural factors explain most of the trade costs variation, whereas participation in multilateral and bilateral trade agreements do not appear to be an important determinant. In addition, the trade cost measure shows substantial differences in the levels of integration across sectors and trading partners.
Created Date	2016.03.10
Modified Date	2022.11.11