Competitiveness of the Turkish Fruit and Vegetable Processing Industry in the European Union Market

Russian and East European Finance and Trade

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 34-53

  Akgüngör, Sedef ^a   Funda Barbaros, R ^b   Kumral, Nese ^b  

^a ISIK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cost competitiveness; Export similarity; Turkey and European Union trade relations; Turkish fruit and vegetable process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041415941     PISSN: 10612009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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