China - India Merchandise Trade

China - India Merchandise Trade
Author: Anjali Tandon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre:
ISBN:

Using the export data at HS 2-digit level, the paper shows that China has maintained a stable export basket over time. By comparison India has intensified exports of competitive products indicating greater penetration into the world markets. The export structures of China and India demonstrate a large number of opportunities indicating greater possibilities of augmenting the trade structures. For both economies, the number of bilaterally competitive products is less than the number of internationally competitive exports. The competing interests that constitute the challenges, between China and India, in products with high intensity of low priced unskilled labour weigh down the bilateral competitiveness despite presence of international comparative advantage. The behaviour of China's bilateral competitiveness vis-a-vis India has become more consistent with products demonstrating competitiveness both at the bilateral and international levels. The pattern of India's bilateral competitiveness vis-a-vis China continues to be in tandem with India's international competitiveness, albeit to a lesser extent than before. The performance of India's bilateral exports seems to have been restricted due to procedural delays. By comparison, China's exports to India exhibit relative departure from international competitiveness demonstrating its ability to penetrate the Indian markets.

India-China Merchandise Trade

India-China Merchandise Trade
Author: Kulwinder Singh
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2012-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9783659165924

India and China have emerged as robust global economic powers during the last two decades. Their economic interactions, particularly in the field of merchandise trade, have increased tremendously. China has already become the second largest trade partner of India while India's share in China's global trade is also increasing continuously. With growing trade ties between the two neighbouring countries, it becomes important to analyse the distribution of gains from their mutual trade. Hence, this study attempts to analyse the trends in India's terms of trade with China. For this purpose, India's Net Barter Terms of Trade (NBTT) with China has been computed for the period from 1992-93 to 2004-05. For most of the years, during the study period, India experienced favourable terms of trade with China as compared to its overall unfavourable terms of trade. However, it has also been found that India's terms of trade were greatly influenced by one single commodity named iron ores & concentrates.

China's Growing Role in World Trade

China's Growing Role in World Trade
Author: Robert C. Feenstra
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 603
Release: 2010-03-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0226239721

In less than three decades, China has grown from playing a negligible role in international trade to being one of the world's largest exporters, a substantial importer of raw materials, intermediate outputs, and other goods, and both a recipient and source of foreign investment. Not surprisingly, China's economic dynamism has generated considerable attention and concern in the United States and beyond. While some analysts have warned of the potential pitfalls of China's rise—the loss of jobs, for example—others have highlighted the benefits of new market and investment opportunities for US firms. Bringing together an expert group of contributors, China's Growing Role in World Trade undertakes an empirical investigation of the effects of China's new status. The essays collected here provide detailed analyses of the microstructure of trade, the macroeconomic implications, sector-level issues, and foreign direct investment. This volume's careful examination of micro data in light of established economic theories clarifies a number of misconceptions, disproves some conventional wisdom, and documents data patterns that enhance our understanding of China's trade and what it may mean to the rest of the world.

IndiaChina Border Trade: A Case Study of Sikkim's Nathu La

IndiaChina Border Trade: A Case Study of Sikkim's Nathu La
Author: Ms Eram Fatma
Publisher: KW Publishers Pvt Ltd
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9386288648

Border trade between India and China was closed shortly before the IndiaChina war of 1962. The growing tensions between the two countries due to border issues along with India’s stand to give refuge to the Dalai Lama added fuel to fire. There was about a decade and a half long Cold War like situation that existed between the two countries. Relations began to normalise from the mid1970’s. On 16 December 1991, India and China signed a memorandum of understanding on resumption of Border Trade. It was decided initially it would be carried out at one point across the Uttar PradeshTibet border through the Lipulekh pass. This was followed by the reopening of Border Trade in 1992. Two years down the line a second trading point was reopened across Himachal PradeshTibet border through the Shipki La. Later in 2006, Nathu La pass was reopened in Sikkim as per the agreement signed between India and China in 2003. In the decade that has followed, few of the expectations that the people in the Sikkim region had from the opening of this route has materialised. This work deals primarily with the nature of the border trade across the Nathu La, the expectations the people had from it, and humble for suggestions for attaining them.

A Perspective on Global and Bilateral Trade Behaviour in India and China

A Perspective on Global and Bilateral Trade Behaviour in India and China
Author: Anjali Tandon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2015
Genre:
ISBN:

Over the past years, both India and China have demonstrated dynamism in their international as well as bilateral trade relations. While both countries have registered a rise in merchandise trade as well as trade of commercial services, the significance of merchandise trade, for exports as well as imports separately, is established. Their bilateral trade statistics indicate a transformation both in terms of values and percentage growth. The structure of bilateral exports is found to be highly skewed with exports from India dominated by resource based exports and products with low value added component. Imports from China display a fairly high degree of concentration among few products only, though this is not as high as for exports. Imports occur mostly in items with relatively high value added components and are very much in alignment with China's export strategy.