{"title":"Comparative Advantage of Yarn and Weaving Industries: Evidence for Türkiye and Top Exporters","authors":"Çiğdem Kantur, B. Türkekul","doi":"10.2478/ftee-2023-0003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract With the repeal of the MFA agreement, the competitive conditions in yarn and weaving industries have changed. Especially, with the cheap labour of Asian and Far Eastern countries, they have become advantageous in this unrestricted competition environment. Therefore, this study was conducted to help to identify those products where Türkiye and her competitors have comparative advantages. This study mainly focuses on analysing the complementarity and substitutability of selected countries such as Türkiye, India, China and the USA. RTA, RC, RSCA and trade specialisation (TSI) indices were used to evaluate the competitive advantage. The results showed that Türkiye’s competitiveness in cotton yarn and cotton weaving has deteriorated. However, India and China, which are the major countries in the world’s cotton production, have a positive impact on their long-term competitiveness. Moreover, for these countries there is convergence in cotton yarn and divergence in cotton fabric products.","PeriodicalId":12309,"journal":{"name":"Fibres & Textiles in Eastern Europe","volume":"31 1","pages":"15 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Fibres & Textiles in Eastern Europe","FirstCategoryId":"88","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ftee-2023-0003","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATERIALS SCIENCE, TEXTILES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract With the repeal of the MFA agreement, the competitive conditions in yarn and weaving industries have changed. Especially, with the cheap labour of Asian and Far Eastern countries, they have become advantageous in this unrestricted competition environment. Therefore, this study was conducted to help to identify those products where Türkiye and her competitors have comparative advantages. This study mainly focuses on analysing the complementarity and substitutability of selected countries such as Türkiye, India, China and the USA. RTA, RC, RSCA and trade specialisation (TSI) indices were used to evaluate the competitive advantage. The results showed that Türkiye’s competitiveness in cotton yarn and cotton weaving has deteriorated. However, India and China, which are the major countries in the world’s cotton production, have a positive impact on their long-term competitiveness. Moreover, for these countries there is convergence in cotton yarn and divergence in cotton fabric products.
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FIBRES & TEXTILES in Eastern Europe is a peer reviewed bimonthly scientific journal devoted to current problems of fibre, textile and fibrous products’ science as well as general economic problems of textile industry worldwide. The content of the journal is available online as free open access.
FIBRES & TEXTILES in Eastern Europe constitutes a forum for the exchange of information and the establishment of mutual contact for cooperation between scientific centres, as well as between science and industry.