중국(中國),일본(日本) 간 철강산업(鐵鋼産業)의 무역구조(貿易構造)에 관한 연구(硏究)

A Study on the Trade Structure of Steel Industry between China and Japan

This paper examines the steel industry`s intra-industry trade(IIT) of China by disentangling vertical from horizontal IIT in trade with Japan during the period of 2000-2008. The steel industry`s vertical intra-industry trade(VIIT) of China is larger than the horizontal intra-industry trade(HIIT) and the steel industry`s high quality vertical intra-industry trade(VIITH) of China is not larger than the low quality vertical intra-industry trade(VIITL) in trade with Japan, implying that the steel industry`s product quality of China still less competitive than Japan. But although the China steel industry still has comparative disadvantage to Japan, Chinese steel industry`s low quality VIIT of semi-products and bars & sections in trade with Japan has decreased slowly and its high quality VIIT has increased very slowly in the 2000`s. This implies that Chinese steel industry`s comparative advantage and quality have been increasing little by little.