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Luboš Smutka, Michal Steininger, Ondřej Miffek CZECH AGRICULTURAL FOREIGN TRADE
DEVELOPMENT
TAB. 6: Share of individual territories in total Czech agrarian imports
Import
Developing
countries CIS
Other d-ed.
countries EFTA EU27
Rest of
the world EU15 EU12
2001 14,1% 0,4% 6,9% 0,7% 73,9% 4,0% 50,6% 23,2%
2003 12,9% 0,5% 5,4% 1,1% 76,6% 3,5% 51,2% 25,5%
2005 10,4% 0,7% 4,0% 0,6% 82,0% 2,3% 55,9% 26,1%
2007 7,7% 0,5% 3,7% 0,8% 84,3% 3,0% 56,0% 28,3%
Source: Research Institute of Agricultural Economics in Prague
In recent years, the value of agrarian trade was increasing in the case of all territorial
groups. The most dynamic growth was recorded in the case of the European Union
countries and members of European Free Trade Area. Both these groups of countries are
members of the European single market and therefore trade among those countries and
the Czech Republic is not limited by any significant restrictions. Even though the value
of trade between all the territories and the Czech Republic was constantly increasing,
their shares in total territorial trade structure of the Czech Republic is constantly
decreasing because of the more dynamic growth rate of trade between the Czech
Republic and European Union. While the average inter-annual growth rate of trade
between the Czech Republic and the European Union was about 13.5%, the average
inter-annual growth rate between the Czech Republic and non-EU countries was only
about 1.2%. It is the reason while (even though the nominal value of trade is increasing)
shares of developing countries, other developed countries, CIS countries in total
agrarian trade are permanently decreasing and while shares of EU countries and EFTA
countries are permanently increasing.
Czech Agrarian Foreign Trade Commodity Structure
The following tables (Tables 7, 8, 9 and 10) illustrate the development of the structure of
Czech agrarian foreign trade in commodities. During the period 1999 – 2007 agrarian
export and import value were constantly increasing in the case of almost all commodity
groups (in the case of 23 from 24 commodity groups according to HS 2). There are
significant differences between the average inter-annual growth rates among individual
commodity groups, however in general, trade in all commodity groups increased in value.
There are significant differences in the case of the commodity structure concentration
between Czech agrarian exports and agrarian imports. While agrarian exports within the
frame of the first two commodity groups have a share in total agrarian exports of about
25%, in the case of agrarian import the level of concentration is not so high. The
problem of too narrow a concentration of our exports is connected with the problem of
stability of agrarian markets. Our agrarian foreign trade balance is very vulnerable.
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