Specialisation of Agri-food Trade of the Slovak and Czech Republics after the EU Accession

The paper deals with analysis of the Slovak and Czech agri-food trade specialisation dynamics in the context of the EU enlargement in 2004. The results reveal a similar development of agri-food trade of both countries by their trade partners/groupings, although the dynamics level differed. In one-year span it was rather difficult for the countries to improve position of comparatively disadvantageous commodities. However, once obtained a high revealed comparative advantage, they were able to maintain it over the analysed period. Moreover, the results point to a significant weakening of traditionally competitive commodities on the CEEC markets after the EU accession.

DRABIK Dusan;  BARTOVA Lubica; 

2007-06-07

Slovak Agricultural University

JRC37280

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC37280,