Review of China's Agricultural Products Trade and Study on the Change of International Competitiveness of China's Agricultural Products after Entering WTO

This paper systemically reviews the trade of agricultural products, products structure and market structure in review after China entering WTO, analyzes the changes of comparative advantage and competitiveness of China's agricultural products during these five years after entering into WTO with RCA and TC index, and probes into the source of increase of China's agricultural products export scale before and after entering WTO. The study shows that the competitiveness of China's agricultural products decreased further. The labor-intensive products are of competitive advantage while the land-intensive ones are of competitive disadvantage. The deep processing agricultural products have better comparative advantage than the fresh and live ones. Besides, the increase of China's agricultural products export mainly results from the enlargement of the international import markets, and the weak competitiveness of agricultural products restrained the increase contrarily in the period. Meanwhile we should pay other attention to the positive influence of the rational export market construction.