The comparative advantages and the patterns export of vietnam agricultural product at integration context

Abstract

The paper aims to identify agricultural produce with comparative advantages in addition to the structure of Vietnam's agricultural exports in the context of international trade integration in the period from 2000 to 2018. By using the Worldbank data (the SITC- revision 3), the indicators of the product structure analysis HHI and the revealed comparative advantage RCA indicated that given rapid commercial integration of Vietnam from 2000 to 2018, Vietnam only focused on limited key agricultural produce and neglect those with huge export potentials, though the structure of the export industry has been more diversity while that of export markets barely show changes. This implies that Vietnam is only focusing on certain markets and has not made good use of the trade agreements it has entered into to exploit the remaining markets. Through the research results, the authors believe that Vietnam has great room and opportunity in taking advantage of trade agreements, especially the EVFTA agreement (effective from August 1, 2020) to improve Vietnam's export capacity. Finally, through the research results and related references, the authors give 6 recommendations to the government and enterprises operating in the field of agricultural produce to maximize the export capacity of agricultural produce in particular and the export capacity of Vietnam in general.