Analysis of the International Trade Competitiveness of China's Textile and Apparel Industries in Post-Quota Era——An Empirical Analysis Based on the Intra-industry Trade

The development level and the composition of intra-industry trade are an important standard to measure industrial international trade competitiveness of a country.In order to evaluate the competence of China's textile and apparel industries exactly,this paper makes an empirical analysis of the situation of China's textile and apparel(TA) intra-industry trade.The results indicate that the overall level of intra-industry trade development on China's TA industries is slow and low while the intra-industry international competence of China's TA is increasing,that the style of trade on China's TA industries is mainly taken by inter-industry trade,that the intra-industry trade level and industrial competence of each sub-product of textile industry are not the same and its trade is chiefly taken by vertical intra-industry trade,among which the competence of textile material products is weak and intra-industry trade degree is relatively high,that the products like apparel have obvious and steady comparative advantage but their intra-industry trade level is low and that textile mechanical products have feeble competence and their intra-industry trade level is also low but demonstrates the trend of rise.Finally several suggestions for the development of intra-industry trade of China's TA industry are forwarded.