Prevalence of key developments in trade of agro-food producers in the new member states of the European Union.

摘要

The ten new member states (NMS-10) of the European Union (EU) have contributed to an enhancement in the agro-food trade among the EU-25 members. Intra-industry trade (IIT) represents only a minor part of NMS-10 trade in agro-food products. Their trade in agro-food products is specialized to different countries in terms of economic distance, factor endowments and/or degree of competitiveness of their agro-food sectors. It is suggested that the borderless EU markets are likely to influence the increase of IIT with implications for the EU trade policy, since more than one-third of agro-food trade in the EU-25 members is represented by NMS-10.