@article{Pohlová:281649,
      recid = {281649},
      author = {Pohlová, K. and Smutka, L. and Laputková, A. and Svatoš,  M.},
      title = {Czech Agrarian Foreign Trade According to the Degree of  Processing},
      journal = {AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics},
      address = {2018-09-30},
      number = {665-2019-273},
      month = {Sep},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {Added value of Czech agrarian trade is a frequently  discussed topic. The goal of the New Strategy of the  Ministry of Agriculture with the outlook until 2030 and of  the Export Strategy of the Czech Republic for 2012-2020 is  to improve the commodity structure of Czech agrarian  exports and to increase the proportion of exported  processed products and food with high added value. One of  the key aspects to understanding the current state of the  development of agrarian trade added value is methodology  used for trade performance analysis. In fact, there are  several methodologies related to attempts to estimate the  real state of added value distribution in relation to  foreign trade performance. None of the methods seems  flawless, each is suitable for a different purpose in  understanding the commodity structure specifics. Czech  authorities apply methodology originally proposed by Regmi  (2005) which, however, does not truly reflect the real  state of the current commodity structure. The Research  Institute of Agricultural Economics and Informatics is  interested in developing its own method suitable for better  understanding of the Czech agrarian foreign trade  specifics. The objective of this paper is to specify the  basic idea of the proposed methodology, to compare it with  the already applied methodology and to present basic  differences between the old and the new approaches.  Presumably, the new classification can serve as a suitable  tool for Czech agrarian trade analysis and provides a more  precise overview of the degree of processing of traded  commodities than other types of categorisation. Its  advantages prevail over the disadvantages, which are less  important. The new classification of unprocessed and  processed products requires regular inspection and more  frequent updates, as the 8-digit codes of the customs  nomenclature continually change. At the end of the paper  the agricultural trade performance is calculated according  to the currently applied methodology and also according to  the new proposed methodology. The results between both  applied approaches are significant especially in mutual  relation between processed and unprocessed items share in  total trade. There are significant differences both in  relation to EU countries and also non-EU countries.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/281649},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.281649},
}