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In recent years, two main trends have been clearly observed in international agricultural trade: a significant increase in the value of trade turnover and a transformation in the composition of both exports and imports in favor of developing countries. However, the intensity of these trends varies depending on the type of agricultural products and the regions of the world. This chapter details changes in the values and compositions of exports and imports of thirteen categories of food and agricultural products (live animals, meat and meat preparations, dairy products and birds’ eggs, fish and crustaceans, cereals and cereal preparations, vegetables and fruits, sugar and honey, coffee and tea, feedstuff for animals, miscellaneous edible products and preparations, beverages and tobacco, oilseeds and oleaginous fruits, and animal and vegetable oils and fats) by eight geographic regions (East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, Central Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa) and major exporters and importers (197 countries) in 2000–2019.

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    Vasilii Erokhin & Gao Tianming

  2. Stavropol State Agrarian University, Stavropol, Russia

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  3. Faculty of Economic Sciences, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania

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Erokhin, V., Tianming, G., Ivolga, A. (2021). International Agricultural Trade: Products. In: Erokhin, V., Tianming, G., Andrei, J.V. (eds) Shifting Patterns of Agricultural Trade. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3260-0_3

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