China is the most populous countries in the World and most
countries aims to penetrate any huge market. In recent years,
china has achieved high rates of economic growth and increasing
emphasis on intra-regional economic co-operation. In other hand,
most countries act as an economic bloc in multilateral
negotiations.
This paper aims to analyze the international competitiveness of
top ten exporters and Egypt’s exports to china in agricultural
exports. The study is based on two approaches. The first is a
descriptive analysis of specialization patterns of top ten countries
and Egypt in international trade of agricultural products and the
second measures the determinants of competitiveness of their
products through examined export similarity index. The analysis
shows a great diversity in forms of competitiveness of these
countries and reveals high significance of similarity of their export
structures. |