Sino-Indian Non-normal Bovine Meat Trade
| Author | Dexue Liu,Badar Alam Iqbal |
| Published date | 01 February 2016 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0015732515615264 |
| Date | 01 February 2016 |
| Subject Matter | Commentary |
Sino-Indian Non-normal
Bovine Meat Trade
Dexue Liu1
Badar Alam Iqbal2
Abstract
Although importing bovine meat from India to China is illegal, the actual trade
flow is flourishing and impacts both beef markets significantly. This article assumes
that the illegal bovine meat trade value from India to China equals to the differ-
ence between Indian’s officially announced exports value to Vietnam and the
Vietnam’s officially announced imports value from India. Based on that, we ana-
lyzed the current situation of Sino-Indian actual bovine meat trade and its influ-
encing factors. We found that China is actually the largest bovine meat trading
partner of India. The consumption volume in Chinese market, the relative bovine
meat price and the customs supervision of China impacts the non-normal trade
significantly.
JEL: F1, F10, F13, F14
Keywords
Sino-Indian trade, bovine meat, demand of imports
Introduction
Meat consumption has always been one of the indispensable parts of the mass
consumption in a country or economy. In the past, Chinese ate more chicken and
pork than beef. With the increasing consumption levels and changing dietary hab-
its, beef is now more important in our everyday lives. Consumption of bovine
meat per capita has risen steadily in China since 2006. In 2010, it came to 3.86 kg
per capita. And it will probably come to 5.19 kg per capita in 2015. However,
domestic production of bovine meat rises slowly. To meet the rapidly growing
demand, China’s imports of bovine meat have seen a substantial increase in the
Foreign Trade Review
51(1) 98–107
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Corresponding author:
Badar Alam Iqbal, Department of Commerce, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (UP) 202002, India.
E-mail: ba.iqbal.cm@amu.ac.in
1 Professor of Economics, Vice Dean, College of Economics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
2 Department of Commerce, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (UP), India.
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