Countries had put on the spotlight different economical formations and unions to meet the stronger configuration in competition environment, increasing and intensifying with globalization. These formations provided that the member countries exceeded the other countries in world market and these formations fascinated the countries for membership. European Union is one of the most effective unions. Our country’s production potency and foreign trade potential should be examined and our commercial situation according to the member countries should be evaluated in EU, Turkey wants to occur in, possess trade volume is formed by the Customs Union effect and property of directing the markets. It was aimed that production, export and import figures of 12 different product groups in lumber, wooden panel and paper products of the forest products industry which possess an important situation in manufacturing industry formation are compare with 25 different EU countries and in this direction, figures of 15 years had been evaluated with multiple dimension methods which are hierarchical cluster and discriminate analysis for periods being 1990-1995, 1996-2004 and 1990-2004 The results showed that Customs Union ensure a positive contribution to panel industry’s development and Turkey has got competition power against the countries of union in this area; paper and lumber industries had been affected negatively after Customs Union and Turkey has got lower competition power in these areas.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | March 1, 2006 |
Published in Issue | Year 2006 Volume: 8 Issue: 9 |
Bartin Orman Fakultesi Dergisi Editorship,
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