The empirical impact analysis of Technical Barrier of Trade (TBT) to China’s vegetable export to Japan

Abstract

Vegetable is an important agricultural export products of China. Japan is the one of main export countries of Chinese vegetable trade. Over the past few years, the technical barrier trade becomes the main reason to prevent our agricultural products from the exports to Japan. The paper employs the gravity model to do an empirical analysis using the data of Japan and Chinese from 2003 to 2006, then applies to Chinese vegetable exports trade and puts forward some policy suggestions. The domestic manufactures need to raise product quality as much as possible, and the government also needs to work out quality standard beneficial to protecting consumer actively. The higher the standard of China, the closer the Chinese standard with import countries, the more can China promote export.