An analysis of the export situation of China's livestock products

Introduction: since 2002, Cai Ping, the analysis Office of the information center of the Ministry of agriculture, under the condition that the total import and export trade of agricultural products in China has increased over the previous year, the trade of livestock products has declined From January to June, the total import and export trade of livestock products reached US $2.29 billion, down 3.6% from 2001 Among them, the export value was US $1.33 billion, down 8.5%; the import value was US $970 million, up 4% The trade volume of livestock products accounted for 17.5% of the total trade volume of agricultural products, down 0.7% over the previous year 1 The export of livestock products from January to June 1 The export of livestock products decreased from February to May 2002, while the export of other two months increased From January to June 2002, the total export of livestock products in China was larger than the total import, with a cumulative trade surplus of 360 million US dollars, a decrease of 160 million US dollars over the previous year Among them, the export value in January was 240 million US dollars, up 21.6% year on year; the export value in February may was 190 million US dollars, 200 million US dollars, 240 million US dollars and 220 million US dollars, down 17.9%, 20.7%, 16.4% and 19.2% year on year; the export value in June recovered to 240 million US dollars, up 12.1% year on year 2 The export of pig, milk, egg and sheep products increased, while the export of most other livestock products decreased (1) pig products Exports reached US $270 million, a year-on-year increase of 25.4%; imports reached US $60 million, a year-on-year increase of 16.8%; trade surplus reached US $210 million, a year-on-year increase of US $50 million The export of pork increased while the export of live pigs and pig offal decreased The export of pork was 112000 tons, a year-on-year increase of 62.1%; the export of live pigs and pig offal was 924000 and 92.9t, a year-on-year decrease of 6.9% and 68.3% (2) dairy products Export reached 23.96 million US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 28.9%; import reached 130 million US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 13.6%; trade deficit reached 110 million US dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 10.739 million US dollars (3) egg products The export was US $1991.98 million, up 16.4% year on year; the import was US $23 thousand, down 53.7% year on year; the trade surplus was US $1989.05 million, up 2.838 million year on year Among them, 4.74 billion eggs were exported, up 52.3% year on year (4) poultry products The export was US $460 million, down 11.9% year on year; the import was US $210 million, up 2.8% year on year; the trade surplus was US $250 million, down 68.93 million year on year Among them, the export of poultry meat and offal reached 138000 tons, down 35.9% year on year (5) other animal products The export was US $330 million, down 14% year on year; the import was US $160 million, down 0.2% year on year; the trade surplus was US $170 million, down 54.168 million year on year (6) feathers Exports reached 130 million US dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 7.9%; imports reached 200 million US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 20.1%; trade surplus reached 120 million US dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 14.082 million US dollars Among them, the export of filling down is 19000t, down 0.2% year on year (7) cattle products The export was US $35.668 million, down 31.9% year on year; the import was US $25.92 million, up 43.3% year on year; the trade surplus was US $9.748 million, down year on year Among them, exports of beef and live cattle declined, while exports of cattle offal increased The export of beef and live cattle was 12000 tons and 27000 heads, down 37.4% and 6.4% year-on-year respectively; the export of cattle offal was 52.8t, up 1.1 times year-on-year (8) natural honey and royal jelly The export was $32.735 million, down 32.3% year on year; the import was $341000, down 15.9% year on year; the trade surplus was $32.394 million, down year on year Among them, the export of natural honey is 26000 tons, a year-on-year decrease of 44.3%; the export of fresh royal jelly is 261.9 tons, a year-on-year increase of 0.8% (9) rabbit meat Exports reached 9.017 million US dollars, down 73.1% year on year 3 Changes in the ranking of countries where exports arrive From January to June 2002, China's livestock products were mainly exported to Japan, Hong Kong, the United States, India, Russia, Germany, South Korea, the Netherlands, Singapore, Italy and Macao, etc compared with the same period in 2001, Russia and Macao were added to the top 10 countries (regions) in terms of exports, and China's exports to most countries (regions) were lower than that in 2001 However, exports to Russia, Macao, China and the United States showed a momentum of growth, with exports of US $50 million, US $20 million and US $110 million, respectively, up 3.6 times, 5.9% and 1.4% year-on-year 4 The export volume of livestock products in Henan and Hunan increased significantly From January to June 2002, the export volume of livestock products in most provinces of China decreased compared with the same period in 2001 The top 10 are Shandong, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Shanghai, among which Sichuan, Henan, Hunan, and Beijing, among which Sichuan, Beijing, Guangdong and Shanghai decreased by 29.7%, 16.1%, 11.9% and 11.5% respectively, while Hunan and Henan's exports were US $0.5 billion and us $0.4 billion, up 20.4% and 15% year-on-year 2 The main reasons for the decline in exports of major livestock products are the decline in exports of meat and edible offal, live pig and bee products to Asia and Europe The direct reason for this situation is that the EU stopped importing some animal products from China from January 25, 2002 But the deep reason is that after China's accession to the WTO, the western developed countries take the food safety problem as the reason, and use the trade technical barriers, especially the "green barriers" to "light the red light" to China, so as to prevent our agricultural products from entering its market Therefore, whether the internal quality and health standard of livestock products can meet the international or imported standards will become the bottleneck of expanding the export of livestock products in China in the future 3 Countermeasures and suggestions for stabilizing and expanding the export of livestock products in China (1) formulate technical regulations and standards for agricultural products export as soon as possible, and establish a quality certification system for agricultural products export According to the new situation and characteristics of international trade changes after the WTO, we should make use of the provisions allowed by WTO rules to revise and formulate new standards and regulations to protect the interests of China's livestock products and consumers, so as to make the export of China's livestock products get equal treatment in international competition (2) strive for mutual recognition with foreign certification and inspection institutions According to the regulations of WTO, if the inspection standard of our country's animal products reaches the international standard, after the inspection of our country is completed, we can strive for international mutual recognition But it is very difficult to achieve this The government departments should actively support and encourage the export enterprises of our country to obtain certification and mutual certification in foreign countries, create conditions for these enterprises, such as mutual recognition of management ability and laboratory ability, let the international recognize the inspection report from our laboratory, and then gradually improve the popularity and credibility of domestic enterprises (3) further strengthen the construction of our country's agricultural product quarantine and inspection team, and improve the level of our country's agricultural product quarantine and inspection (4) promote scientific breeding and management, change the traditional breeding mode of livestock products in China, gradually implement the standardization and green management of production and management in the whole process from farm to dining table, and thoroughly improve the quality of livestock products in China.