The competitive position of the new eu member states in trade in food industry products

Lukasz Ambroziak ()
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Lukasz Ambroziak: Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics ‒ National Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland

International Conference on Competitiveness of Agro-food and Environmental Economy Proceedings, 2015, vol. 4, 55-65

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to present changes in the competitive position of seven New EU Member States (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia) in their trade in food industry products, in the period of 2003-2013. For this, the synthetic trade competitiveness index (CI) was created, being the arithmetic average of two normalised indices of competitive position, that is trade coverage index (TC) and Balassa revealed comparative advantages index (RCA).The obtained results show that the strongest competitive position in trade in food industry products had Poland and Lithuania. They improved clearly their competitiveness during the EU membership. Comparative advantages in the world market had also Hungary (except for 2007) and Bulgaria (except for 20062008). Despite huge competitiveness growth after the EU accession, Romania failed to achieve competitive advantages in trade in food industry products and still occupied the last position among countries in question. The competitive position strengthened also in the Czech and Slovak export of food products; however, in 2013 they did not have comparative advantages in the world market.

Keywords: food industry; New EU Member States; competitiveness; competitive position (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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