Poland's Competitive Position in Trade in Agri-Food Products with the United Kingdom – Selected Aspects

Justyna Łapińska, Ewa Zdunek-Rosa and Maurycy Graszewicz

Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa Światowego, 2017, vol. 17, issue 32, Part 4

Abstract: Thirteen years have passed since Poland's accession to the European Union. This is a period long enough to make some generalisations over the accession results. This paper focuses on assessing the competitive position of Poland in trade in agri-food products with one of its most important trading partners – the United Kingdom. For this purpose, quantitative indexes of competitive positioning were used, in particular, the trade coverage ratio as well as the revealed comparative advantage indexes – RCAi and LFIi. The conducted analyses show that Poland's competitive position in agri-food trade with the United Kingdom improved markedly over the period considered. The dynamic growth in trade, especially in exports, a significant increase in the trade balance surplus, and generally favourable comparative advantage indexes for Poland show that the period of EU membership has been well utilised by Polish food producers. Polish food is increasingly eagerly bought by demanding British consumers.

Keywords: Consumer/Household Economics; International Relations/Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/266517/files/2017_4_20.pdf (application/pdf)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/266517/files/2017_4_20.pdf?subformat=pdfa (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:polpwa:266517

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.266517

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa Światowego from Warsaw University of Life Sciences Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().