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The opinions expressed in signed articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the opinion of the United Nations. WORKING PAPER 43 Effects of Trade Liberalization on Agriculture in China: Commodity Aspects Jikun Huang and Chunlai Chen CGPRT Centre Regional Co-ordination Centre for Research and Development of Coarse Grains, Pulses, Roots and Tuber Crops in the Humid Tropics of Asia and the Pacific CGPRT Centre Jalan Merdeka 145, Bogor 16111 Indonesia © 1999 by the CGPRT Centre All rights reserved. Published 1999 Printed in Indonesia National Library: Cataloguing in Publication Jikun, Huang Effects of Trade Liberalization on Agriculture in China: Commodity Aspects / Jikun Huang and Chunlai Chen -- Bogor: CGPRT Centre, 1999. xx, 80 pp.; 25.5 cm. -- (Working paper series; No. 43) ISBN 979-8059-98-0 1. China - Trade, free and protected I. Title II. Series 2. Agriculture - economic aspects 382.710.951 Table of Contents Page List of Tables ........................................................................................................................... vii List of Figures ......................................................................................................................... ix Abbreviations .......................................................................................................................... xi Foreword .................................................................................................................................. xiii Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................. xv Executive Summary ................................................................................................................ xvii 1. 2. Introduction 1.1 Background ............................................................................................................... 1.2 Objectives of the study ............................................................................................. 1.3 Structure of the report ............................................................................................... 1.4 Summary of the study on institutions and structure of foreign trade ........................ 1.4.1 Reform in foreign trade .................................................................................... 1.4.2 The structure of foreign trade .......................................................................... 1.5 Current issues on institutions and policies ................................................................ Effects of Trade Liberalization on Production, Marketing and Demand of Selected Commodities 2.1 Trade patterns of selected agriculture commodities ................................................. 2.2 Demand, supply, and trade simulation model ........................................................... 2.2.1 Model specification .......................................................................................... 2.2.1.1 Domestic production ............................................................................ 2.2.1.2 Domestic demand ................................................................................ 2.2.1.3 Stock .................................................................................................... 2.2.1.4 Trade .................................................................................................... 2.2.1.5 Market clearing .................................................................................... 2.2.1.6 Model simulation .................................................................................. 2.3 Welfare analysis ........................................................................................................ 2.3.1 Producer welfare .............................................................................................. 2.3.2 Consumer welfare ............................................................................................ 2.4 Agricultural production, marketing and trade-related policies ................................. 2.4.1 Production growth ............................................................................................ 2.4.2 Agricultural development strategy and policies ............................................... 2.5 Effects of trade liberalization at the national level ................................................... 2.5.1 Debate on China’s food economy .................................................................... 2.5.2 Defining projection scenarios .......................................................................... 2.5.3 Impacts of trade liberalization on China’s agricultural prices ......................... 2.5.4 Impact of trade liberalization on production, demand and trade of agricultural commodities ............................................................................. 2.5.4.1 Baseline scenario ................................................................................. 2.5.4.2 Free trade scenario ................................................................................ 2.5.5 Impacts of trade liberalization on China’s grain self-sufficiency .................... v 1 2 2 3 3 4 5 7 9 9 9 11 13 13 13 14 16 16 18 19 19 21 28 28 30 32 34 34 34 42 2.5.6 Impacts of trade liberalization on agricultural employment and the welfare of producers and consumers ................................................................ 44 2.5.6.1 Employment ......................................................................................... 44 2.5.6.2 Welfare of producers and consumers ................................................... 45 3. 4. 5. Effects of Trade Liberalization at the Farm Level 3.1 Selection of location specific agricultural commodities ........................................... 3.2 Methodology ............................................................................................................. 3.3 Specification of variable costs and returns ............................................................... 3.4 Partial budget analysis .............................................................................................. 3.4.1 Rice .................................................................................................................. 3.4.2 Wheat ............................................................................................................... 3.4.3 Maize ............................................................................................................... 47 47 48 50 50 52 53 Prospects and Strategies 4.1 Institutions, policy and trade patterns ....................................................................... 4.1.1 Reforming China’s external sector .................................................................. 4.1.2 Changing agricultural trade patterns ................................................................ 4.2 The impact of trade liberalization ............................................................................. 4.2.1 Demand, supply and trade balance .................................................................. 4.2.2 Welfare and employment ................................................................................. 4.2.3 Local farmer’s income ..................................................................................... 4.3 Policy implications .................................................................................................... 55 55 56 57 57 58 58 59 References ............................................................................................................................... 61 Appendix Tables .............................................................................................................................. 77 vi List of Tables Page Chapter 2 Table 2.1 Exports and imports of selected agricultural commodities (’000 tons) ............... 8 Table 2.2 Growth rate (%) of agricultural economy by sector and selected agricultural commodity, 1970-97 ........................................................................ 19 Table 2.3 Changing structure of the agricultural economy in China, 1978-96 .................... 20 Table 2.4 Agricultural land use patterns in China, 1978-97 ................................................ 20 Table 2.5 Government investment (billion yuan in 1985 prices) in agriculture, 1965-96.... 22 Table 2.6 Capital flow (billion yuan in 1985 prices) from agriculture/rural sectors to industry/urban sectors through fiscal, financial and grain procurement systems ............................................................................................ 22 Table 2.7 Nominal protection rates (NPR) of grain at official exchange rates, 1985-98 .... 26 Table 2.8 Effective real protection rates (ERPR) of grain at real effective exchange rates, 1985-98 .............................................................................................................. 26 Table 2.9 Agricultural research expenditure in China, 1985-96 .......................................... 27 Table 2.10 Agricultural technology extension expenditure in China, 1986-95 ..................... 27 Table 2.11 Impact of trade liberalization on agricultural commodity prices in China (free trade vs baseline scenarios), 1985-96 ......................................................... 33 Table 2.12 Projection of grain production, consumption and trade under the baseline scenario (’000 tons), 2000-2005 .......................................................................... 36 Table 2.13 Projection of animal product production, consumption and trade under the baseline scenario (’000 tons), 2000-2005 ...................................................... 38 Table 2.14 Impacts of trade liberalization (free trade) on grain production, consumption and trade, 2000-2005 ........................................................................................... 39 Table 2.15 Impacts of trade liberalization (free trade) on animal product production, consumption and trade, 2000-2005 ..................................................................... 40 Table 2.16 Grain self-sufficiency rates (%) under various scenarios, 1995-2020 ................. 43 Table 2.17 Impacts of the free trade regime on agricultural employment in 2000-2005 ....... 44 Table 2.18 Changes in annual welfare gains (billion yuan in 1995 prices) between the free trade and baseline scenarios, 2000-2005 ............................................................. 46 Chapter 3 Table 3.1 Partial budget analysis of rice production in China: baseline versus free trade scenarios ..................................................................................................... Table 3.2 Partial budget analysis of the rice production by variety in China: baseline versus free trade scenarios .................................................................................. Table 3.3 Partial budget analysis of wheat production in China: baseline versus free trade scenarios ..................................................................................................... Table 3.4 Partial budget analysis of maize production in China: baseline versus free trade scenarios ...................................................................................................... vii 51 52 53 54 viii List of Figures Page Chapter 2 Figure 2.1 Price determination in a subsequent period ......................................................... 15 ix x Abbreviations APEC CAAS CAPSiM CCAP CG COFCO ERPR ERS FTCs GATT GDP mt MOA NPRs NRP RMB SOE SSB TVE WTO Asian and Pacific Economic Cooperation Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences China’s Agricultural Policy Simulation Model Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy Coarse Grain China National Grain, Oil and Food Import and Export Corporation Effective Real Protection Rate Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Trade Corporations General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Gross Domestic Product Metric Tons Ministry of Agriculture Nominal Protection Rates Nominal Rate of Protection Chinese Currency State Owned Enterprises State Statistical Bureau Township and Village Enterprise World Trade Organization xi xii Foreword Responding to the growing concern for the effects of trade liberalization on regional agriculture, the CGPRT Centre has implemented a three-year research project “Effects of Trade Liberalization on Agriculture in Selected Asian Countries with Special Focus on CGPRT Crops (TradeLib)” since March 1997, in collaboration with partners from ten countries: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Thailand and Viet Nam. In all these countries, important issues regarding trade liberalization were investigated with an identical research framework by national experts. The investigation covers major crops which might receive either favorable or unfavorable effects of trade liberalization both in export and import. I believe that the project will provide broad and practical knowledge on various aspects of the effects of trade liberalization; moreover, the information will be useful for researchers and policy planners not only in participating countries but also in other countries in the region. However, I would like to note that, since this project was conceived and started before the current currency and economic crisis began in the middle of 1997, the analysis handles basically the period before the crisis with available current information. I am pleased to publish Effects of Trade Liberalization on Agriculture in China: Commodity Aspects as the report of the second phase of the country study of China. A report of the first phase of the country study, which includes institutional and structural aspects on the same subject, was published recently. I certainly hope these reports will be fully utilized for the improvement of agricultural trade and the encouragement of regional agriculture. I thank Dr Jikun Huang and Dr. Chunlai Chen of China for their intensive research and the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy for allowing them to work with us and for providing continuous support. I am very much obliged to Dr Boonjit Titapiwatanakun for his devoted contribution to the project as the regional advisor. I would also like to express appreciation to the Government of Japan for funding the project. Haruo Inagaki Director CGPRT Centre xiii xiv Acknowledgements This is a report of a country study for China under the overall project entitled “Effects of Trade Liberalization on Agriculture in Selected Asian Countries with Special Focus on CGPRT Crops (TradeLib)”. It is the second part of the Chinese study focusing on commodity and local agriculture related to trade liberalization. The report benefited from fruitful discussions with many Chinese government officials, the staff of the CGPRT Centre, and the national experts from the 10 Asian countries participating in this project. The completion of this report would not have been possible without the assistance from many officials, who helped in providing data required for this study, from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Agriculture, and General Customs Administration. We wish to express our sincere thanks to Dr. Haruo Inagaki, Director of the CGPRT Centre, for providing us the opportunity to participate and taking a keen interest in this study. We also sincerely acknowledge the valuable comments and guidelines of Dr. Boonjit Titapiwatanakun, Regional Advisor for this project, Dr. Michio Kanai, Project Leader of the TradeLib project, CGPRT Centre, and Professor Scott Rozelle, of the University of California at Davis. We would like to thank all the staff, particularly Professor Ninghui Li, Dr. Dinghuan Hu, Dr. Ruifa Hu, Dr. Linxiu Zhang, Mr. Fangbin Qiao, Ms. Caiping Zhang, and Ms. Yuxian Lin in the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and also Ms. Titiek Pratiwi, secretary of the TradeLib Project, for their assistance in this study. Beijing, China June 1999 Dr. Jikun Huang Professor and Director Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Dr. Chunlai Chen Visiting Research Fellow Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences xv xvi Executive Summary Reform and trade liberalization in China’s external sector, because of its strategic role in the economy, has proceeded gradually. Gradual trade liberalization in step with reforms in the other sectors of China’s economy has its logic. In the initial stage, reformers only implemented measures that provided incentives to sets of corporations and institutions and did not alter or only partially altered the institutional structure that was set up to achieve the objectives of foreign trade in national industrialization, economic growth, and national security (i.e., food self-sufficiency in the agricultural sector). As experience gained from the reforms grew and the objectives of trade could be achieved through alternative settings of institutions and policies, trade liberalization processed smoothly since the late 1980s. In the past 20 years, the study (reported in the first part of the project) shows that China’s foreign trade regime has gradually changed from a highly centralized, planned and import substitution regime to a more decentralized, market-oriented and export promotion regime. The reforms of the economy in general and international trade in particular have significantly impacted on the economic structure and patterns of international trade in China. Economic reforms resulted in considerable growth of the national economy and dramatically changed the structure of China’s economy in general and agriculture in particular. The changing pattern of comparative advantage within agriculture is consistent with China’s resource endowments. China was a net exporter of labor intensive and labor/capital intensive agricultural products, such as horticultural products, animal products and processed agricultural products, and was a net importer of land intensive agricultural products, such as grains, cotton, and edible vegetable oils in the past. The study also shows that since 1985, when the external trade reform was initiated, the patterns of China’s agricultural trade, particularly the patterns of agricultural exports, have gradually moved more closely towards reflecting China’s resource endowments. However, this study also reveals that room for further liberalization exists in terms of limiting non-tariff measures to control agricultural imports, further commercialization of state trading, and improving the efficiency of foreign trade management. Indeed, China has decided to take further trade liberalization steps in the coming years. China applied to join GATT and then the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1986. Although China has not been accepted as a member of the WTO, China has committed to comprehensively implementing the Uruguay Round agreements upon its accession into the WTO. With 13 years negotiation on China’s WTO accession, particularly the recent progress made during Premier Zhu Rongji’s visit to the United States in April of 1999, it is likely that a decision concerning China’s joining the WTO will come soon. The sheer size of China’s economy and its rapid growth will make China a crucial player in the future development of world markets for inputs and outputs of food and agricultural products, agribusiness, and industry. While the negotiation is still ongoing, there has been also growing concern on the impacts of China’s accession to WTO on China’s domestic agricultural production, prices and markets, employment and farmer’s income, particularly in the short term. How to sustain agricultural growth, achieve food security, and increase farmers’ income with the process of agricultural trade liberalization are priority concerns of not only policy makers but also farmers. What are the impacts of trade liberalization on China’s agricultural production? What are the implications of trade liberalization to China’s food security? How will trade liberalization impact on China’s domestic agricultural commodity prices, agricultural employment, farmer’s xvii income, and agricultural trade in the short run and in the long run? What are the policy implications of the changes in the economy resulting from trade liberalization in the future? The answers to these questions are by no means clear. Some researchers claim that the impacts of China’s accession to the WTO on China’s agricultural production and trade are marginal. Others believe that while both China and the rest of the world will benefit from China’s WTO accession for the economy as a whole, the impacts of trade liberalization on China’s agricultural sector should not be understated. China’s ability to feed itself in the 21st century has been widely discussed in the literature. The most striking feature of the projections of food surpluses and deficits is their wide range. Such a wide range of food economy predictions is perplexing. China’s emergence as either a major importer or a major exporter could have enormous consequences for world grain markets and prices. Moreover, most previous studies assume that China’s current trade policies will be continued in the future. Evidence from most recent work indicates that China will face great challenge in achieving its food security in a more liberalized economy. Based on a projection model developed at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (CCAP), CCAP’s Agricultural Policy Simulation and Projection Model, several policy scenarios are formulated and the impacts of trade liberalization on China’s agricultural demand, supply, trade, prices, welfare, employment as well as farmers’ income in local crop production are projected and estimated. The scenarios formulated for simulation analysis include baseline, free trade, and free trade with increasing productivity enhancement investment scenarios. A baseline scenario assumes that China will continue its current domestic and external policies and not join WTO in the future. In contrast to the baseline scenario, a free trade scenario assumes that China will continue liberalizing its agricultural sector and reach a free trade environment for most agricultural commodities by the year 2005. This represents a maximum impact of trade liberalization on China’s agriculture. The actual impact of trade liberalization and China’s joining WTO on domestic agriculture will be in between the simulation results of the baseline and the free trade scenarios. In order to provide long term prospects on China’s food security under a free trade regime, we project China’s food supply, demand and trade toward 2020 under a free trade scenario without and with the progressive improvement in agricultural productivity enhancement investment. The latter scenario assumes that the annual growth rate of agricultural research expenditure will rise from 4% (baseline assumption) to 6%. Our simulation results on trade liberalization conclude that the producers of most crops (except for rice and horticulture) will have reduced income from their farming activities not only because of a decline in the price received by the farmers, but also a reduction in production. However, most animal product producers, particularly farmers raising hogs and poultry, will benefit from trade liberalization as the increase in the export demand raises livestock prices and the surging maize import lowers the feed price. The impacts of trade liberalization on China’s agriculture are remarkable not only on agricultural prices, but also on domestic production and consumption, and external trade. Under the free trade scenario, the fall in domestic prices of grain raises grain consumption and slows down the production. Our projection shows that China’s domestic grain production will fall far behind domestic grain consumption under the free trade scenario. Compared to the baseline scenario, the grain deficit between domestic supply and demand will be further increased. China’s net grain imports would rise to about 60 million mt in 2005 if the grain market were liberalized. Among these, 40 million mt or two-thirds of imported grains are maize. Our study also concludes that maize, the third major crop just behind rice and wheat, will soon pass over rice and wheat, and become a top crop in terms of the magnitude of its domestic consumption (demand), and it will soon become the number one imported crop product in China. China will likely be one of the world’s largest importers of maize in the coming years if the market is fully liberalized in the future. In contrast to what many scholars’ xviii believe, while trade liberalization will raise the wheat import in the short run, the wheat import will soon decline after the initial shock of trade liberalization. China will become nearly selfsufficient in wheat in the long term (by 2020). On the other hand, China is likely to be one of the major exporters of livestock products in the world. Pork and poultry exports will expand profoundly with trade liberalization. Trade liberalization will tend to raise domestic animal product prices to levels present in the world market. The interesting point is that feed grain consumers are the animal product producers. Thus, the producers of animal products will have double gains (lower production cost as the feed price declines and higher meat prices) with a more liberalized economy. Consequently, there will be an expansion in the production of animal products, particularly the production of pork and poultry in China after trade liberalization. In relation to food security and grain self-sufficient issues, our study shows that a completely liberalized economy in the short term will challenge the current food security goal defined by the government. China’s grain self-sufficiency rate will decline rapidly from 98% in the mid-1990s to less than 90% in 2005 if the free trade regime is assumed by the year of 2005. However, it is worth noting that this is an extreme case, representing a maximum impact of trade liberalization on China’s grain economy. The actual impact of China’s joining the WTO will be lower than the results from this free trade scenario. In the long term, our study shows that the most effective policy that could improve China’s food security and raise the grain self-sufficiency level is to increase agricultural productivity enhancement investment such as agricultural R&D, rural and agricultural infrastructure and irrigation. If these policies are formulated properly, China could achieve its grain self-sufficiency target in the second decade of the next century, even if the grain market is completely liberalized in 2000-2005. The welfare analysis of this study reveals that trade liberalization will generally be unfavorable to grain producers but favorable to livestock and fish producers in China. In terms of consumers, trade liberalization will raise their welfare in grain, but reduce their welfare in the meat sector. For overall social welfare, our study shows that social welfare gained from the liberalization within China’s agricultural sector is minimal. However, the welfare changes differ significant among agricultural products, between producer and consumer, and over time. The impacts of trade liberalization on agricultural employment in this study are surprisingly lower than those found in other studies for China, but they are consistent with the actual employment changes observed in Mexico and other developing countries during the period when their economies were liberalizing. However, a significant impact of trade liberalization is found for maize and wheat. Maize production would lose employment by more than 2.3 million man-years and wheat by 1.14 million man-years in 2000-2005. The employment expansion in the rice and livestock sectors will not be able to fully offset the decline in employment in the crop sector. For agriculture as a whole, a rough estimate of the reduction in employment due to trade liberalization might range from 2 to 2.5 million manyears in the period of 2000-2005. Examination of the impacts of trade liberalization at the local farm level is based on a partial budget analysis for rice, wheat and maize, the three most important crops in China. The results show that rice farmers in China will be one of the few winners within the agricultural sector in the process of trade liberalization. The gains come essentially from the rise in the domestic rice price and the reduction in production costs as most agricultural input prices will fall with trade liberalization. These gains from liberalization are found for all rice producers in China, but the gains vary among provinces and by variety. The partial budget analyses also demonstrate that wheat and maize production would be much less profitable after trade liberalization. Farmer’s income from wheat and maize production will decline significant with trade liberalization, as the large decline in output prices xix could not be compensated for by the cost reduction from cheaper imported agricultural inputs. Most maize and wheat farmers in southern China might record a negative profit if the opportunity costs of family labor are accounted for in crop production. Based on the findings of this study, a number of policy recommendations are made in the last section of this report. The study calls for a greater role for the market to determine trade patterns in order to reap comparative advantage gains in the course of trade liberalization. Policy steps to achieve comparative advantage gains include removing implicit taxes on farmers and reforming domestic grain pricing and marketing systems. Further commercialization of the state trading system will improve the efficiency of foreign trade under a more liberalized economy, which is essential for China to maximize its potential gains in some sectors and/or to minimize its likely losses in other sectors of the economy due to trade liberalization. Improved grain handling, internal transport, and external port capacities will be the other important areas for policy intervention. This study also calls for a revision of the grain self-sufficiency policy. If a food grain self-sufficiency concept could be adopted by policy makers instead of the total grain selfsufficiency concept, China would benefit greatly from realizing the full gain in trade liberalization by shifting more land from the productions of feed grain to exportable products (i.e., horticultural products). To maintain a high level of food security and to ensure that the comparative advantage of China’s agriculture does not decline as far as we have projected under the free trade scenario, China has to substantially raise its investment in agricultural research and extension, irrigation, and other productivity-enhancing activities. This is one of the most effective measures to reduce China’s grain imports and expand labor intensive agricultural product export. Policies recommended for China to minimize its short term shocks from trade liberalization include measures that could be adopted under the WTO framework such as setting an adequate minimal market accession level, a reasonable level of the above quota tariffs, an acceptable length of the transition period, and a moderate depreciation of the domestic currency. New policies on assisting farmers in adjusting their production and employment structures, and on setting up a better tax and income re-redistribution system are also suggested. This is particular important for the poor whose income mainly depends on crop production. Access to credit and market information is another important factor that will help farmers obtain re-employment in other sectors. 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