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The Calculation and Decomposition on Trade Cost of China′s Fresh Apples Export

ZHANG Cong-ying, HUO Xue-xi   

  1. (College of Economics and Management/Center of Western Rural Development,Northwest A&F University,Yangling 712100,China)
  • Received:2017-06-09 Online:2017-11-16

Abstract: In order to promote the development of China′s apple export trade and provide a new micro interpretation perspective, the paper builds an improved gravity model to calculate and decompose the trade cost of China′s fresh apples export to 20 major trading partners from 2004 to 2013 based on Anderson & van Wincoop(2003)trade cost theory. The results reveal that trade openness of China′s fresh apples export has improved while trade cost of export has been on a decline from 2004 to 2013; trade cost of China′s apples export varies with the absolute difference of per capita GDP negatively, absenting “Linder Effect” ;trade openness is negatively correlated with the trade cost; geographic distance, average nominal tariff levels, the RMB real effective exchange rate and adjacent land are unnecessary influence factors on the trade cost of China′s fresh apples export to major trading partners.

Key words: fresh apples, trade cost of export, Gravity Model, Panel Stochastic Effect Model