Growth prospects of foreign trade in meat products in Poland and the European Union are presented in the paper. Four scenarios considering different scale of the world agricultural trade liberalization were analysed. Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), a computable general trade equilibrium...

Competitiveness and competition are basic categories of the market economy. While analyzing the foreign trade they acquire an international aspect. After the Polish accession to the EU, the Polish dairy industry showed a very favourable performance as regards the foreign trade, which can confirm...

The volume of international trade and the share of foreign capital in companies as well as their dynamics in 2005 and 2010 have been analysed. It enabled a verification of the hypotheses on changes, forms and levels of internationalisation. The process of internationalisation depends on the size...

Pork meat plays an important role in the Polish, European and global market. In the article volume of swines’ production, consumption of pork and also the data connected with export and import this kind of meat in 2000-2012 were characterized. In 2012 pork production occupied a dominant...

After the Polish accession to the EU, the Polish poultry market was incorporated into the common organization of poultry market in the Community and became a part of it. This integration has contributed to higher prices of poultry meat, but it also contributed to an increase in its consumption....

Some possible scenarios of Polish agri-food trade development are presented in the paper. Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), a computable general equilibrium model, was used to make some trade forecasts. The analysis showed that escalation of agricultural trade liberalization can result in a...

The aim of this article is to present the situation of the milk and dairy products market in the EU countries and in the countries which are the world’s major milk producers in view of changes caused by the potential liberalisation of the global milk trade. The volume of trade in milk and...

The aim of the paper was to assess the competitive position of the most important producers of plant raw materials in the intra-EU trade in 2004 and 2008. The analysis covered such product groups as cereals, oil seeds, fruit and vegetable. The competitiveness was assessed with the use of a...

In the article the state of foreign trade in meat products between Belarus and Poland is analyzed. Our countries for long years have been partners in this trade, first of all in pork products. However since March 2007 Belarus has ceased import purchases of Polish meat. In the article problems...

The food processing sector is one of the greatest and most important industry sectors in Europe. It is the second largest (after the metallurgical industry) in the manufacturing industry, with 14.5% of the industrial overall turnover (917 EUR billion) in the EU-27. Employment in the food...