Fluxos comerciais bilaterais entre EUA e China no período de 2010-2019

Abstract

Given the rapid economic growth of China during the last decades, which has made it a country with high demand for commodities and with a high share in the export of technological products, the present work aims to understand how the trade relationship between China and the United States has behaved, especially in the face of the Chinese economic rise, currently the second largest economy in the world – with the potential to rival the current biggest economic power, the United States. In this way, the objective is to analyze, interpret and identify the pattern and evolution of bilateral trade relations of the two largest economies in the world today from 2010 to 2019. To this end, the methodology for data analysis includes the classification of Lall's taxonomy, as well as the use of the market-share index, the Revealed Comparative Advantage index and the Intra-Industry Trade index. Finally, it identifies that bilateral research between the powers has a complementary and inter-industry character – with China mainly exporting low, medium and high technology to the USA and mainly importing from this mainly primary products and medium technology.