@article{Khanal:329891,
      recid = {329891},
      author = {Khanal, Nabin Babu   and Deb, Uttam },
      title = {Fish and Fishery Products Trade by India: Trends,  Competitiveness, and Comparative Advantage},
      journal = {Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development},
      address = {2022-12-23},
      number = {1362-2023-005},
      month = {Dec},
      year = {2022},
      abstract = {This study analyzes the trends and determines the  comparative advantage and competitiveness of India’s fish  and fishery products trade in the world market and of  India’s exports to 10 major destinations over the period of  2000–2021. We use the revealed symmetric comparative  advantage (RSCA) index to quantify India’s comparative  advantage in exporting fish and fishery products and the  Vollrath index to measure the revealed competitiveness of  the country’s fish and fishery products trade. We collected  relevant data at Harmonized System (HS) four-digit level  from the UN Commodity Trade (UN Comtrade) database. Our  analysis shows that India has a revealed comparative  advantage (RCA) in exporting fish and fishery products to  the world market. Specifically, India has a comparative  advantage in exporting frozen fish, crustaceans, and  mollusks; but it has a comparative disadvantage in  exporting live fish, fresh and chilled fish, fish fillets  and other fish meat, and dried/salted/in-brine and smoked  fish to the world market. In terms of individual  destinations, India has RCA in exporting live fish to Hong  Kong; fresh and chilled fish to UAE (in recent years);  frozen fish to China, Hong Kong, Thailand (recent years),  and Vietnam (recent years); fish fillets and other fish  meat to Japan (recent years); dried fish to Hong Kong;  crustaceans to Japan, the US, and Canada (recent years);  mollusks to the EU, Thailand (recent years), and Vietnam  (recent years); and other aquatic invertebrates to Vietnam.  India has a comparative disadvantage (RCD) in exporting  fresh and chilled fish to the EU, Japan, the US, and  Vietnam, and fish fillet and other fish meat to the US,  Canada, and Vietnam. The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively  affected India’s export, comparative advantage, and trade  competitiveness of fish and fishery products. India’s RCA  and competitiveness in exporting fish and fishery products  decreased in 2018–2020, but the RCA and competitiveness  increased by 2021.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/329891},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.329891},
}