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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 273, 2021
XIV International Scientific and Practical Conference “State and Prospects for the Development of Agribusiness - INTERAGROMASH 2021”
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Article Number | 08014 | |
Number of page(s) | 11 | |
Section | Agricultural Management and Environmental Economics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202127308014 | |
Published online | 22 June 2021 |
Ensuring sustainable imports of soybeans to China: a comparative study of bilateral foreign trade with Brazil
1 The Sothern Federal University, 105/42 Bolshaya Sadovaya str., 344006 Rostov-on-Don, Russia
* Corresponding author: natayevch@yandex.ru
The article discusses the problem of sustainable soybean imports to China as a strategic food product. Extensive and intensive factors, determine the soybean supply to China was identified. It has been established that the China-Brazil soybean foreign trade is characterized by a constant increase in bilateral interdependence, characterized by volumes and prices. It was revealed that the prices of soybeans in the Brazilian market are formed by China’s demand and are the lowest of imported into China. It has been proven an increase in the soybean imports volatility in China: the monopoly strengthening of the key supplier (Brazil) and the rise of purchase prices, the inclusion of China's political commitments in foreign soybean trade with the United States. It has been established that the extensive factors on the soybean imports increasing are near to be exhausted. It is suggested that China will be enforced to use intensive factors of soybean imports sustainability: diversification of soybean import sources, including initiation of public-private partnership contracts, policy adjustments to deepen China-Brazil-USA-Russia soybean trade cooperation, exploring investments in neighboring countries. A plan for expanding educational and scientific cooperation with Russia is presented, aimed at expanding production and soybean foreign trade with the PRC.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2021
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