The Czech agrarian foreign trade - ten years after the EU accession

Annotation: The EU accession influenced both territorial and commodity structure of the Czech foreign agrarian trade. The Czech agrarian foreign trade is dominated by EU market. The share of non-EU countries in Czech export and import activities is marginal. While in the past Czech exports were dominated by raw commodities, in nowadays Czech exports are based on semi finalized or already finalized agricultural and foodstuff products. The Czech agrarian imports are dominated by noncompetitive products. Despite of decreasing the share of agricultural trade in total Czech Foreign trade activities, the values of agrarian exports and imports are constantly increasing. The aim of the article is to identify the main tendencies and trends in territorial and commodity structure of the Czech foreign agrarian trade and paper is also identifying changes which have occurred in period after the EU accession. The paper provides the following results. The EU share in the Czech agricultural trade reaches about 90% in the long-term. Within the EU, the Czech Republic is oriented strongly on trade with new member states. In relation to the third countries, the CIS, EFTA and OECD countries belong to the most important export territories. Imports to the Czech Republic from third countries come mostly from developing countries. The Czech agricultural exports are based on a relatively small number of commodity aggregations, which represent a substantial part of the export value. The share of processed and semi-processed products increases and exceeded already 70%. The Czech agricultural market still does not have any profiled structure of comparative advantages.