Competitiveness of China’s Agricultural Product Export to the United States of America

Taking major agricultural product importers at the American market as reference object and using market share and growth rate, this paper analyzed current situation of the competitiveness of China’s agricultural product export to the United States of America. It used the Exports Similarity Index to evaluate the competitiveness of China’s agricultural product export to USA and it analyzed the competitiveness of China’s agricultural product export to USA by the shift share method. Research results indicate that China’s agricultural products occupy small portion of American market and are faced with intense competition of many developing countries, especially the Thailand. However, China still has strong export competitiveness and ranks the second place only second to India. Finally, it came up with recommendations for raising the competitiveness of China’s agricultural product export to USA and promoting China’s agricultural product export to USA.