한국과 중국 영유아용품 무역현황 분석에 관한 연구

A Study on the Trade Situation Analysis for Baby Products of Korea and China

As China has gradually enhanced the levels of economic development and national income or consumption in recent years to increase the consumption of baby products, markets for high-quality baby products are spotlighted so that the scale of markets for baby products is predicted to grow from 180 million yuan in 2015 to more than 360 million yuan in 2020. In the trade of major baby products in China, milk powder is much larger in import than in export in that its imports reached 2.52 billion dollars in 2015, whereas its exports reached 8.46 million dollars. As the trade of baby diapers has tended to increase, their exports amounted to 1.92 billion dollars in 2015, whereas their imports amounted to 1.277 billion dollars. In the trade of baby clothes, of which knitting products were given important weight, their exports came to 3.23 billion dollars in 2015, whereas their imports came to 140 million dollars. In the trade of baby products in Korea, the exports of baby products had increased by 2.3 times during the recent period of 2011-2015, whereas their imports had increased by 1.4 times, as the items leading export and import increase were diapers, milk powder, and cosmetics. Of them, the exports of milk powder had increased by 3.1 times from 36.23 million dollars in 2011 to 112.26 million dollars in 2015 and the exports of diapers had increased greatly from 9.91 million dollars in 2011 to 143.13 million dollars in 2015, whereas the exports of baby clothes had decreased from 33.56 million dollars in 2011 to 28.91 million dollars in 2015 According to the current status of trading principal baby products between Korea and China, for 5 years during the period of 2011-2015, the exports of milk powder to China had increased by 3.9 times from 23.85 million dollars to 93.97 million dollars, so that they tend to increase continuously. Korea exports the largest diapers to China in that their exports had increased by 21.4 times from 5.50 million dollars to 117.63 million dollars for 5 years. In Korea’s trade of baby clothes with China, their exports reached 4.09 million dollars in 2015, whereas their imports reached 29.25 million dollars, so that their exports accounted for 14% of the total exports (based on 2015).