Post-Accession Changes in the Agri-Food Products’ Quality and Terms of Trade - Empiric Evidences from Romania

The paper aims to capture post-accession effects of Romania’s integration in the common market upon the external performances of the agricultural products; the analysis of intra-Community agri-food trade, by commodity groups, highlighted the existing opportunities of the products with expressed export potential and the areas affected by the net imports. The calculation of the relative unit value indices provided the bases for assessment of the quality of Romanian agricultural traded products, resulting empiric evidences upon the level of integration of the agricultural trade flows and post-accession evolution, i.e. deterioration or improvement, of their terms of trade.