Competitiveness of forest products industry sector in Turkey: Revealed comparative advantage index
Citation
Akyüz, K.C., Yıldırım, İ., Ersen, N., Akyüz, İ., Memiş, E. (2020) Competitiveness of forest products industry sector in Turkey: Revealed comparative advantage index, Inst Technol Drewna, 63 (205).Abstract
This study, aimed to determine the competitive advantage position of the forest
products industry sector in Turkey between 2001-2017 by using the revealed
comparative advantage approach. One of the three sub-production structures
(wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal-21 sub-product group) of the forest
products industry were examined at the level of their sub-product groups. As a
result of the study, "the wood and articles of wood;wood charcoal" sector was far
from the desired position in terms of competition. When "the wood and articles of
wood;wood charcoal" sector was analyzed on sub-group basis, especially the
products of 4411, 4413 and 4415 had competitive position. Moreover, it was
found that the trend in Turkey's imports of wood and articles of wood sector was
not high. However, imports carried out under specified product groups were
carried above the level of imports in Turkey.