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Luboš Smutka, Michal Steininger, Ondřej Miffek CZECH AGRICULTURAL FOREIGN TRADE
DEVELOPMENT
this development is that more than one half of export volume is represented by only
non-processed water and cereals, having only minimal added value and unit prices.
TAB. 3: Development of unit value of Czech agrarian foreign trade
CZK/kg 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
Export 12.7 9.6 10.3 15.5 19.2 16.3 12.6 11.5 15.7 7.2 6.4 7.1 7.55 7.8 10.1
Import 13.9 18.7 19.8 19.7 21.6 22.3 22.4 21.8 22.3 21.3 22.3 22.3 22.99 23.4 25.8
Source: Czech statistical office, Eurostat, own processing
Czech Agrarian Foreign Trade Territorial Structure
The Czech Republic’s main trade partners are EU countries. Their share in total Czech
foreign trade is about 78% (in 2007) and in the case of agrarian foreign trade it is about
87%. They dominate our export and import territorial structure. Their share in total
agrarian exports is more than 90% and their share is constantly growing at the expense
of “third countries”. The same can be said about the territorial structure of imports. The
EU countries’ share is about 84%, while the shares of other territories are slowly
decreasing. The following tables (Tables 4, 5 and 6) illustrate the development of
territorial structure during period 2000-2007. There are several reasons why the EU
countries dominate our agrarian foreign trade. The first and most important reason is
that there are no trade barriers between the Czech Republic and other EU countries. The
second reason is the EU accession of all central European countries. Before the Czech
Republic became a member of the EU, the share of CEFTA countries (Poland, Hungary,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania) was more than 30%, when those countries
became members of the EU together with the Czech Republic, the share of the EU as
the Czech Republic’s most important agrarian foreign trade partner increased by almost
50% (from 60% in 2003 to 87% in 2007).
TAB. 4: Czech agrarian trade territorial structure development: EU countries vs.
Non-EU countries
Czech Agrarian
Foreign Trade
Share of current EU countries in total
Czech agrarian trade
Turnover Export Import
Share of other countries in total
Czech agrarian trade
Turnover Export Import
2001 76.7% 80.8% 73.9% 23.3% 19.2% 26.1%
2003 79.2% 83.2% 76.6% 20.8% 16.8% 23.4%
2005 84.0% 86.6% 82.0% 16.0% 13.4% 18.0%
2007 87.2% 91.2% 84.3% 12.8% 8.8% 15.7%
Source: Research Institute of Agricultural Economics in Prague
TAB. 5: Share of individual territories in total Czech agrarian exports
Developing Other d-d.
Rest of the
Export countries SNS countries EFTA EU27 world EU15 EU12
2001 7,3% 3,2% 2,8% 0,5% 80,8% 5,4% 33,9% 46,8%
2003 4,8% 3,9% 2,9% 0,8% 83,2% 4,4% 37,0% 46,1%
2005 5,2% 3,2% 1,9% 0,4% 86,6% 2,7% 41,5% 45,0%
2007 2,2% 2,7% 1,7% 0,8% 91,2% 1,4% 42,4% 48,8%
Source: Research Institute of Agricultural Economics in Prague
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