Tea is China's traditional export-earning agricultural product. For a long time, China's tea exports have occupied an extremely important position in the international market. With the further opening of the international agricultural product market and the increasingly fierce competition in the international tea market, China's tea exports are increasingly being affected by technical barriers.The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyze which factors are affecting Chinese green tea exports. In addition, there is a focus on the trade status of Chinese green tea in the EU market, Japan and the United States. To achieve this objective, this paper adopts a modern approach to gravity models, i.e. an approach which uses specifications based on micro-foundations. Specifically, The paper uses a specification which explicitly takes into account the nature of multilateral trade resistance (MTR). More specifically, estimators based on traditional panel methods (combined with the recommended structures of dummies) and Silva-Tenreyro's (2006) PPML estimator (also combined with dummies). The results show that the maximum residue limits(MRL) of pesticides in importing countries have significantly impacted the export of Chinese tea. The cultural effects such as the Language similarity have a positive...

L'Accord sur le commerce intérieur est un accord de libre-échange pancanadien visant l'abaissement des barrières non tarifiaires au commerce interprovincial. La notion de barrières au commerce interprovincial, en soi, suscite maintes controverses. Aucun consensus n'existe à savoir quelles sont les barrières au commerce, quelles en sont leurs coûts, mais surtout, s'il faut les abaisser. La grande majorité des experts concoivent que beaucoup de ces barrières non tarifaires au commerce se retrouvent dans le secteur des produits agroalimentaires. À ce titre, ce domaine est, depuis plusieurs décennies, traditionnellement protectionniste et constitue donc un marché des plus difficiles à intégrer. Cette réalité prévaut tant au niveau international qu'interprovincial. Au Canada, l'outil privilégié après des années de négociations constitutionnelles infructueuses fut l'Accord sur le commerce intérieur. Cet accord, aux allures de traité international, vise l'intégration graduelle du marché interne canadien. La volonté de devenir un marché intégré et compétitif au niveau mondial se heurte à la détermination des provinces de protéger leur souveraineté législative. Ainsi, l'outil d'ouverture du marché que constitue l'Accord sur le commerce intérieur, qui navigue entre ces positions antagonistes, fut rédigé de manière assez complexe et peu accessible. Le contexte politique et constitutionnel particulier dans lequel se sont inscrites les négociations de cet accord a ainsi teinté le texte de l'accord et sa rédaction. En plus de sa simplification, plusieurs solutions intervenant sous plusieurs facettes de l'Accord sur le commerce intérieur permettraient à ce dernier de se voir plus efficace dans sa mission d'intégration du marché interprovincial canadien, en plus d'augmenter sa notoriété, sa crédibilité et de permettre une meilleure mise en œuvre. / The Agreement on Internal Trade of Canada is a free trade agreement to reduce internal non-tariff barriers to trade. The concept of barriers to internal trade itself is controversial. There exists no consensus as to what are barriers to trade, what are their costs, and more importantly, whether they should be eliminated. The vast majority of experts are of the view that many of these nontariff barriers to trade are in the food processing industry. For many decades, this industry has been traditionally protectionist and is therefore a more difficult market to integrate. This situation may be observed at both the international and the internal level. In Canada, the tool of choice after years of failed constitutional negotiations was the Agreement on Internal Trade. This agreement, which bears a resemblance to international treaties, aims toward the gradual integration of the internal market in Canada. The desire to become an integrated and more competitive player in the global market conflicts with the provinces' intense desire to protect their legislative sovereignty. Thus, the tool chosen to open the Canadian market, the Agreement on Internal Trade, was drafted in a rather complex and inaccessible manner in order to strike a balance between those conflicting positions. The constitutional and political context in which the negotiations of this agreement took place coloured the text of the agreement itself and its drafting. In addition to its simplification, there exist several solutions involving various facets of the Agreement on Internal Trade, which should increase the effectiveness of the latter with respect to the integration of the Canadian interprovincial market, in addition to increasing its notoriety and its credibility and facilitating its implementation.

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