HONOR FOR 100 TIMES——The 100th Canton Fair Celebrated

In October, Canton, the capital city of Guangdong Province will celebrate the 100th Chinese Export Commodities Fair(CECF). Canton is also called Spring City or Flower City for its beautiful and warm climate in the whole year and people's nature of loving flowers. In China, Chinese Export Commodities Fair (CECF) is rarely known, but when Canton Fair is mentioned, people always answer: "Yes! I know!". In fact, they are the same.     

广交会(英文)

Chinese Export Commodities Fair, also called Canton Fair, is held twice a year in spring and autumn since it was inaugurated in the spring of 1957. It is China's largest trade fair of the highest level, of the most complete varieties and of the largest attendance and business turnover. Preserving its traditions, the Fair is a comprehensive and multi-functional event of international importance. This autumn comes the 100th Canton Fair. In April of 1957, Canton Fair initiated at the former Sino-Russian Friendly Building, with a gross exhibition space of 18     

HONOR FOR 100 TIMES——The 100th Canton Fair Celebrated——Canton Fair, New Functions Performed in the New Era

In October, Canton, the capital city of Guangdong Province will celebrate the 100th Chinese Export Commodities Fair（CECF）. Canton is also called Spring City or Flower City for its beautiful and warm climate in the whole year and people＇s nature of loving flowers.     

广交会

Chinese Export Commodities Fair, also called Canton Fair, is held twice a year in spring and autumn since it was inaugurated in the spring of 1957. It is China＇s largest trade fair of the highest level, of the most complete varieties and of the largest attendance and business turnover. Preserving its traditions, the Fair is a comprehensive and multi-functional event of international importance. This autumn comes the 100th Canton Fair.     

Canton Fair, New Functions Perform In the New Era——Interview with official of China Foreign Trade Center

Sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (formerly known as the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation), the Chinese Export Commodities Fair, or Canton Fair, is held in April and October every year in Canton city, Guangdong Province. All domestic general import and export companies, as well as their provincial branches, are welcomed to participate. The first Canton Fair was held in the spring of 1957. Many different industries and fields were represented there: rice, cooking oil, food, farming products, textiles, silk, light industry, crafts, the chemical industry, the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry, hardware and ore-mining industry, mechanical industry, electrical industry, and non-ferrous metal smelting, to name a few. The Canton Fair has grown substantially over the last fifty years, and now it has earned itself a reputation as "China's No.1 Fair", and as "China's Most Traditional Fair". In October, 2006, Canton Fair is greeting the 100th Anniversary. The fair has made splendid achievements, especially since the early 1980's when the policy of reform and opening-up was implemented. In September, China's Foreign Trade interviewed leaders of China Foreign Trade Center, the undertaker of Canton Fair. By Editor     

Walk Through Unusual Five Years-An Exhibitor''''s Canton Fair Course

When the 103rd Canton Fair is ap- proaching,an old friend of Canton Fair,Li Ying from Jiangsu prov- ince recollected his past five years' experi- ences to the grand trade meeting.Each year is special,with some unforgettable memories colored by the year. 2003,No matter wind or storm In the spring of 2003,a new disease called SARA spread over China,tingling everybody's nerves.Guangdong,as the front of anti-SARS war,was suffering espe- cially considerable difficulties and tests.To     

Canton Fair, New Functions Perform In the New Era——Interview with official of China Foreign Trade Center

Sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (formerly known as the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation), the Chinese Export Commodities Fair, or Canton Fair, is held in April and October every year in Canton city, Guangdong Province. All domestic general import and export companies, as well as their provincial branches,are welcomed to participate.     

HONOR FOR 100 TIMES——The 100th Canton Fair Celebrated

In October, Canton, the capital city of Guangdong Province will celebrate the 100th Chinese Export Commodities Fair(CECF). Canton is also called Spring City or Flower City for its beautiful and warm climate in the whole year and people's nature of loving flowers.     

Canton Fair Takes Off

Canton Fair,also called China Import and Export Fair,is held twice a year in Guangzhou every spring and autumn,with a history of 53 years since 1957.     

Canton Fair:Foreign Trade Enterprises Fight Against Difficulties

The 110th Chinese Export Commodities Fair, also called Canton Fair, was held in Pazhou International Exhibition Center in October this year which marks the tenth anniversary of China’s accession to the WTO. China’s foreign trade enterprises are facing a grim situation featured     

Strategic Trade Policies Under Monopsony and Uncertainty: The Exporter’s Non-Linear Responses Based on the Organization of Its Industry

Players’ access to information, their market power, and the timing and rationale of their decisions are important but often neglected in the making of strategic trade policies. I examine optimal decisions in a monopsonistic market with asymmetric information to determine an exporting country’s policy strategies. The large importing country first sets a producer subsidy and later imposes an import tariff after learning about the welfare-maximizing exporter’s reactions to the subsidy. I assume that at the time of their decisions, the n exporting firms have incomplete information and rely only on noisy signals from their own domestic market to account for the uncertainty in the international market. I find that import tariff and producer subsidy can be substitute rather than exclusively independent policies. Results also show that the exporting country’s optimal reaction is non-linear and is based on the structure of its export industry; the exporting country’s government facing a large importer subsidizes (or taxes) its export when the number of exporting firms is low (or high) relative to a threshold number of firms. More important, before giving out subsidies, the exporting country’s government requires more collusion of its firms especially when the large importer targets a fixed domestic price.     

Do export status and export intensity increase firm performance?

This study examines the effects of export status and export intensity on the performance of firms in Ghana. Our measures of performance include productivity and profitability. Using the Regional Project on Enterprise Development (RPED) dataset covering the period 1991–2002, the results of this study indicate that export status and export intensity have positive effects on productivity, confirming the learning‐by‐exporting hypothesis. Competition on the international market exposes exporting firms to new technologies, and this has the potential of increasing their productivity. Thus, economic policy initiatives should be directed at encouraging firms to enter the export market. Existing exporters should also be motivated to intensify their exporting efforts by exporting more of their output to foreign markets. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

CONSUMER SPENDING ON DESIGNER JEANS: A CLASSICAL CONDITIONING MODEL

The classical conditioning theory of learning was used to predict consumer spending on designer jeans. Subjects viewed and responded to eight slides of designer and non-designer jeans. In addition the presence or absence of designer labelled hangtags was varied so that half of the subjects were exposed to the hangtags and half of them were not exposed to the hangtags. Thus the design of the experiment was a mixed model two by two analysis of variance. It was predicted and found that subjects were likely to say they would spend more for the designer jeans than the non-designer jeans. Manipulation checks revealed that the subjects were not estimating or trying to guess the retail value of the jeans. It was also predicted and found that subjects were more likely to select designer jeans as gifts than non-designer jeans. Finally there was a designer jeans by hangtag interaction. People were more apt to select designer jeans as gifts than non-designer jeans, but only in the absence of the hangtags. When the hangtags were present the effect was negated. Classical conditioning theory is used to explain the results and to offer avenues for further research.     

Foreign Market Competition as a Determinant of Exporter Performance: Evidence from Slovenian Manufacturing Firms

Most studies on the link between exporting status and firm productivity find no evidence of learning‐by‐exporting, whereas self‐selection of more productive firms into exporting is most often confirmed. Furthermore, empirical tests of the learning‐by‐exporting hypothesis rarely rely on a specific learning mechanism and instead estimate very general tests of the effects of exporting on improvements of firm efficiency. Lack of explicit controls for specific learning mechanisms in turn biases the empirical estimates against finding the learning effects. Here I undertake a more targeted approach to learning‐by‐exporting by using data on Slovenian manufacturing enterprises between 1994 and 2002 to explore a specific channel for learning in the export markets. Using a variety of empirical tests, I show that competition in exporting markets serves as an added criterion in firm self‐selection as only the most productive and fastest growing firms choose to enter more competitive foreign markets. Once home‐market competition is explicitly controlled, a significant productivity adjustment effect of exporting firms in response to intensification of export market competition is revealed. Crucially, this provides tentative evidence of learning‐by‐exporting, which has so far been elusive in the relevant literature.     

贸易中间商在出口中相对盛行的影响因素研究——基于2010 年鞋产品企业层面出口数据的实证分析

本文利用2010年中国海关鞋产品企业层面的出口数据,考察了贸易中间商在出口中相 对盛行的影响因素。结果表明：从国家层面看,贸易中间商的经手份额与出口目标 国的市场规模、制度环境呈反比,与出口目标国的关税水平以及中国到出口目标国 之间的距离呈正比;从省市区层面看,贸易中间商的经手份额与中国各省市区的市 场规模呈反比,与各省市区的中介市场发育度呈正比。     

External environment and the moderating role of export market orientation

This research has two main objectives. The first is to fill the knowledge gap on the role which the external environment plays in the strategic behavior of exporting companies, taking into account the psychological distances between the domestic and foreign markets. The second aim is to clarify the role that market orientation plays in export activity, since the literature review shows conflicting results. The study provides insight into these issues through hypothesis testing of a conceptual model using a sample of 212 Spanish exporting companies. The results lead to two major conclusions: (a) in turbulent environments, exporting firms adapting the marketing mix program to the needs of foreign markets obtain a better export performance in highly competitive and psychologically distant markets; (b) although market orientation has a direct and positive effect on export performance, its main role is to support strategic decision making in exporting companies. In addition, market orientation moderates the relationship between marketing mix adaptation and export performance.     

The efficacy of marketing skills and market responsiveness in marketing performance of emerging market exporting firms in advanced markets: The moderating role of competitive intensity

Emerging market exporting firms in advanced economies must manage a highly dynamic landscape owing to factors such as changing market needs and fierce competition. Hence, these firms need to develop unique marketing skills for superior performance. Accordingly, this study draws on the resource-based and dynamic capability theory to empirically examine the role of marketing skills in developing a dynamic capability—market responsiveness—for improved marketing performance, and the changes in this relationship under highly competitive intensity. Using a sample (n = 98) of firms originating from an emerging market (Pakistan) mainly exporting to advanced markets (the United Kingdom, the United States or both), the findings show that marketing skills, positively mediated by market responsiveness, influence the marketing performance of such firms in advanced markets. The indirect relationship is positively moderated by a higher level of competitive intensity. This study extends the dynamic capability and export marketing streams of literature, particularly for emerging market exporting firms in advanced markets, and provides useful performance implications to export marketing managers.     

牛仔裤名镇发展困局

<正>原材料上涨、资金乏力、不断上涨的人力成本、缺乏品牌知名度、环境污染……这一切都让这个专业镇步履蹒跚。阿发和小高半蹲在地上,旁边还蹲着一个新来的打版师和拿样品的人,面前的地上摆了8个皮质的标牌,所有人都在等着阿发的意见。     

Sources of competitive advantage in high performing exporting companies

The requirements for success in export market ventures are likely to differ not merely from the critical success factors in the domestic market, but also from the policies effective in the fully internationalized or global enterprise. Exporting activities are a vitally important area of international business, where the foundations for superior performance are not well understood. A recent study of export market ventures in the U.K. links superior exporting performance to the establishment of key competitive advantages, which may be traced to foundations in specific competencies (competitive skills in exporting) and capabilities (competitive resources in exporting). This simple model of the sources of superior export performance and this study's findings provide important insights for executives.     

Guangdong Companies Talk Wages

Wages are on the rise again in Guangdong, a big exporting province, and across much of the rest of China. In recent months, there has been much anecdotal evidence of labour shortages and wage hikes on the southern and eastern coasts. We showed a while ago that the labour market had made a surprising V-shaped recovery in coastal areas and was also strengthening in central and western China,