STATUS OF CATTLE AND BEEF EXTERNAL TRADE OF POLAND ANDHUNGARY OUTSIDE THE EUROPEAN UNION BETWEEN 2002 AND 2015

Abstract

Both Hungary and Poland are net exporter in cattle and beef trade. Because of the large Polishand Hungarian supply these countries cannot sell all products on domestic and EU single markets. Cattleand beef production of both countries have to be sold on non-EU markets. These markets have a specialattribute because import of cattle and beef to EU is regulated but the export to these countries is not underEuropean limitation. This special attribute results in the fact that there are less available scientific indexesto use studying the international trade. In this paper we aimed to examine the comparative advantagesof Hungarian and Polish cattle and beef export to non-EU markets between 2002 and 2015. Out analysisbased primary on Balassa index (RCA) which is compared with the share of product export of the referencecountries in their entire export. Secondary, the Revealed Symmetric Comparative Advantage (RSCA) wasused as a correction of RCA (makes the RCA symmetrical). Primary we established that both studiedcountries have the same non-EU target markets with the highest importance of Turkey and Russia. Duringthe examined period several changes were resulted, for example the decrease of Turkish market and theRussian embargo. These changes had an effect on comparative advantages.

Keywords

• cattle trade
• beef trade
• export to third countries
• comparative advantages and disadvantages