Abstract:
Competitiveness is the key to export development and country’s position on global markets. The aim of this paper is to estimate Moldova’s and Ukraine agri-food products competitiveness on EU market, taking the foreign trade as major indicator. The research is based on secondary data from International Trade Centre (ITC) and focuses on Moldova and Ukraine agri-food trade commodities changes in structure and its distribution in territorial aspect. The analyzed time series belong to 2009-2015. According to the obtained results, both countries register comparative advantages for many agri-food products. Moldova has advantages on seven agri-food products, while Ukraine register comparative trade advantages on over half of its agricultural and food commodities. Trade disadvantages are observed for twelve agri-food commodities in case of Moldova, and only three for Ukraine.
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Affiliation: L. Cimpoieș, O. Sârbu, State Agrarian University of Moldova; N. Vavdiiuk, Lutsk National Technical University, Ukraine
