A STUDY OF TRADE COMPLEMENTARITY BETWEEN CHINA AND THE BALTIC STATES AND ITS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES

作者：Zheng Xiaosong; Jia Lijun^*; Bao Jiawen; Chen Jiao

来源：Amfiteatru Economic, 2018, 20(49): 788-803.

DOI：10.24818/EA/2018/49/788

• Baltic States
• China
• complementarity
• trade potential
• trade gravity model

The paper mainly studies trade complementarity between China and three Baltic States, namely Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The paper first introduces China and the three Baltic States' current trade situation. It then makes an empirical analysis on the trade complementarity between China and the three Baltic States by using models of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) and trade complementarity index (TCI) respectively, which reveals that complementarities of China to the Baltic States are mainly in the labor-intensive products, while complementarities of the three Baltic States to China are in the resource-intensive products. However, the current structure of imported goods from the Baltic States to China is different from the results of complementarity analysis. In this study an expanded trade gravity model is used to analyze trade potential, which helps to develop feasible trade strategies and it shows that trade between China and the Baltic States needs to be fully exploited.

• 出版日期2018-8
• 单位上海大学