General Analysis of the Factors that Affect the Terms of Trade

The income terms of trade is an important target to measure the trade benefit of a country, but it cannot explain the improvement of the terms of trade results from the structure optimization of the export commodities, or the raise of the additional profit, or the lowprice sales promotion which increases the number of export goods, and cannot indicate the actual competitive ability of the export commodities of a country. Through the comparison and analysis of the export ability coefficient, this article sets up a system to judge the competitive ability of the export commodities, and makes a substantival study of our country's net exporting value in foreign trade since 1980s.