Agricultural trade between China and ASEAN - Agriculture and Food Security in China - page 349

agricultural exports to ASEAN in China's total agricultural exports fluctuated
during 1992-2005 around a declining trend, falling from 10.1 per cent in
1999 to 8.8 per cent in 2005.
ASEAN is an important source of China's agricultural imports, as Figure
12.2 shows. On average, imports from ASEAN accounted for 15.6 per cent
of China's total agricultural imports during 1992-2005 and there has been
a rising trend in recent years, increasing from 14.7 per cent in 2000 to 16.6
per cent n 2005. Chna's share n ASEAN's agrcultural mports s not as
important—in 2005, it was only 8.8 per cent.

China-ASEAN import and export structure

We examne the structure of the blateral agrcultural trade n two ways.
First, we use the data from 2005 to analyse the relative importance of
agricultural commodities in bilateral trade. Second, we use data for the
period 1992-2005 to investigate the trends in bilateral agricultural trade
between the two partners.

Figure 12.1 China's imports, exports and net exports with ASEAN (US$
mllon)

6,000

Chna's mports
Chna's exports
Chna's net exports

4,500

3,000

1,500

0

-1,500

-3,000

-4,500

1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Year

Source: COMTRADE.