DEVELOPMENT OF FOREIGN TRADE AND PRODUCTION IN FURNITURE HARDWARE SECTOR IN TURKEY

Year 2019, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 92 - 100, 31.12.2019

Tuncer Dilik Uğur Kılıç Ahmet Kurtoglu

Abstract

Nowadays, the birth and spread of modern
electro-furniture equipped with technology as a necessity of modern trends and
global trends have increased the importance of furniture accessories. In this
study, accessories that give functionality and prestige to the furniture and
contribute to the quality, aesthetics and beauty at the same time, industrial
production and foreign trade as the development of the structural situation in
Turkey in this field have been investigated. In this context, the development of
the sector present results of the study conducted on furnishing accessories
manufacturer in Turkey last 10 years foreign trade (exports-imports) was
evaluated in the framework of the data. Material and technological development
level of world standards, some product groups have shown that an equivalent
structure of Turkey accessory industry; (45.4%) in terms of catching up and
implementing the development trends in the world furniture sector and being in
a market environment open to unfair competition conditions (35.6%).

 As a
result, the general problems of the sector study essentially both product
groups, identified as undefined as well as industry groups stems from a sector
effect in achieving the strategic objectives of Turkey's furniture sector, was also
making suggestions for the improvement of international competitiveness of
taking accessories industry into consideration.

Keywords

Furniture hardware, Hardware production, Hardware import, Hardware export

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