Export competitiveness of Türkiye's agricultural machinery and equipment sector

Year 2023, Volume: 7 Issue: 3, 703 - 717, 30.09.2023

Zeynep Aktaş Çimen , Can Ertekin

https://doi.org/10.31015/jaefs.2023.3.24

Abstract

The aim of the study is to determine the competitiveness of Turkey’s agricultural machinery and equipment sector. Balassa’s Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) approach was used in the period 2002-2021 by using International Trade Center database. Balassa’s Revealed Comparative Advantage RCA2 Index for 39 agricultural machinery and equipment product groups (their sub-product groups of 69, 82, 84, 87) related to Harmonized System 6-digit product classification, Vollrath’s Relative Export Advantage-RXA, Net Export Index-NEI, and Export-Import Rate Index-EIRI indices were calculated. According to the results, while Turkey has a competitive advantage in 13 of the agricultural machinery and equipment product group exports, it has a competitive disadvantage in the other 26 product groups.

Keywords

Agricultural Machinery and Equipment, Revealed Comparative Advantages, Vollrath Index, Net Export Index, Export-Import Rate Index.

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