Analysis on Foreign Trade Competitiveness of Tobacco and Tobacco Substitutes in China

With the development of economy and technology in China, consumers' demand for tobacco products is rising, and the import and export trade volume of tobacco and tobacco substitutes is gradually increasing.The trade of tobacco products occupies an important position in agricultural trade.This paper collects the import and export data of tobacco and tobacco substitutes at home and abroad by searching the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database, the National Bureau of Statistics database and statistical yearbook, and analyzes the trade competitiveness of tobacco and tobacco substitutes in Chapter 24 of HS classification index from 1995 to 2020 by using Revealed Comparative Advantage Index (RCA), Revealed Competitive Comparative Advantage Index (CA), Revealed Competitive Index (RC) and Trade Competitive Index (TC), and puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions to improve the international trade competitiveness of tobacco products in China.