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Abstract
The development of the Czech agricultural trade after EU accession in
2004 is a reflexion of changing trade conditions (especially the entry on the EU
single market and taking over the EU commitments to the WTO), effectiveness
of the Czech agriculture and food industry. The main characteristics of the
changes are the growth of the negative trade balance, a substantial increase of
the trade turnover with EU countries to the detriment of the third countries and
the growth of exports of agricultural raw materials accompanied with the growth
of imports of more processed products. The main cause is the orientation of
the Czech agriculture on products with a lower demand on labour quantity
and quality and on simpler technologies, together with a lower effectiveness of
domestic primary processors. Besides the global trade indicators, this
development is documented by selected RCA indicators.