关键词: 鲜切花, 进口, 需求弹性

Abstract: With the rapid development of Chinese economy, the production of fresh cut flowers, consumption, and trade all showed a steady and rapid growth trend. Based on this, the paper uses fresh cut flower trade data and China’s fresh cut flower industry development data to sort out the characteristics of imported cut flower trade. Through comparison and analysis, it is found that the import volume and quota of fresh cut flowers in China both show an increasing trend. The source of fresh cut flowers is relatively concentrated, and the import market for fresh cut flowers has great development potential. Based on the import data of fresh cut flowers from different importing countries in the UN Comtrade database, an AIDS model measuring the import demand elasticity of fresh cut flowers was constructed. The irrelevance regression method was used to estimate the elasticity coefficient, and the expenditure elasticity, self-compensation price elasticity and cross-price were calculated separately elasticity. The conclusions are: China’s fresh cut flower import market is positively related to import volume and import spending. The import price of fresh cut flowers and the import amount reversed, and the import quantity was more sensitive to changes in import prices. The fresh cut flowers of different importing countries mainly consist of complementary relationships. Only a few countries have an alternative relationship, but the alternative relationship is not obvious, which reflects Chinese huge demand for fresh cut flowers import trade. In the future, China’s fresh cut flower imports will further expand, and import sources and fresh cut flower varieties will become increasingly diversified.

Key words: Fresh Cut Flowers, Import, Demand Elasticity