The Czech Agrarian Foreign Trade Comparative Advantages

The character of Czech agrarian trade activities was changed in the 21st century. The Czech agrarian trade became even more focused on developed and especially European union countries agri-food markets. The aim of this paper is to identify the main changes affecting territorial and commodity structure within the period 2001 and 2015. Paper is focused especially on Czech agri-food trade volume, value, unit price and competitiveness analyses. Individual analyses are specified in relation to EU28, non-EU countries, World and OECD vs. Developing countries. - In relation to all analyzed group of countries, the Czech value of Czech agrarian exports and imports recorded the significant growth. The positive figure of Czech agri-food trade activities is much faster inter -annual growth rate of exports in relation to the value of imports. Czech agri-food trade balance is stabilized and import/export covering ration is recorded the positive changes. The weakness of Czech agri-food trade activities is low unit price of Czech exports in comparison to imports unit prices. Competitiveness of Czech agri-food trade is especially pushed through the growth of exported volumes. The added value in Czech agri-food trade value growth is very limited. The number of Czech agri-food trade competitive items is increasing (but they have very limited added value).