Abstract:

Abstract: The paper analyzed the change of export value, export structure and export price of river eel product by using trade data from 1997-2010 on Fujian export statistics and FAOSTAT-Fisheries. The result showed that river eel product export in Fujian played an important role in international market, and export value has shown downward trend in resent ten year, but had a large increase in 2010. The export market was highly concentrated in Japanese market, but the market concentration has been decreasing during recent years. The there is strong relationship between Fujian export price and the international market price, and the supply and demand of this product in international market was in balance. Moreover, there is no product differentiation. At last, according to the analysis, the policy recommendation is proposed to promote Fujian river eel product export.