@article{Antimiani:25283,
      recid = {25283},
      author = {Antimiani, Alessandro and Henke, Roberto},
      title = {Italy and China Agri-Food Trade: Integration, Similarity  and Competition},
      address = {2006},
      number = {1004-2016-78589},
      series = {Poster Paper},
      pages = {15},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {The paper looks at the increasing integration of China  into the world market, with a specific focus on  agricultural and food trade and on the Italian market.  Agricultural trade among Italy and China has been limited  to secondary products, especially originated in the  livestock sector. However, in the last decade exchanges  have been constantly increasing and the set of products  changing deeply. Specifically, Italian exports to China  have been specialising towards the typical "Made in Italy"  processed products, showing a potential market for Italian  agricultural and food products. In order to test the  opportunity and the risks of the integration of China into  the world agro-food markets, some similarity indices have  been calculated, with refer to two different markets: the  EU-15 and the Chinese market. In the first case the  similarity of Chinese exports with those of some EU  partners on the EU-15 market was considered; in the second  the similarity of exports of some EU Member States to China  was calculated. Taking into account the different level of  quality of agro-food products, the main result of the  analysis is that Chinese products entering EU are more  complementary than similar to the EU products; at the same  time, China is a great potential market for EU products,  and Italy will compete with other EU countries in the gain  of quotas on the Chinese agro-food market.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/25283},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.25283},
}