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2000,00
1500,00
1000,00
500,00
0,00
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Czech Republic Poland Slovakia
Figure 2. Wood and wood and cork products trade balance
The results of indicator of import penetration analysis are presented in table 3 and
figure 3. An indicator of import penetration measures a share of import in domestic supply of
goods. The higher indicator value means higher import share in the market total goods supply.
For a given country a value close to 100 in a certain industry, implies that domestic demand is
mainly fulfilled by imports and domestic production tends to be exported. A value close to 0
means self sufficient, i.e. domestic demand is mainly satisfied by domestic production. A
value above 100 illustrates measurement problems which may occur when combining
production and trade data. The highest values of this indicator are noted for Slovakia and
reached 25-34. Czech Republic and Poland reach similar values of this indicator, respectively:
15-22 and 11-19.
Country
Table 3. Wood and wood and cork products import penetration indicator
Wood and products of wood and cork Import penetration indicator
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Czech
Republic
21,44 18,58 16,01 15,74 18,79 17,40 17,10 18,15 18,06
Poland 11,57 11,72 14,19 16,39 15,58 17,03 18,98 18,07 16,53
Slovakia 31,64 33,46 28,50 29,28 25,03 28,21 28,80 30,00 28,80
Source: Authors’ own calculation based on Eurostat and OECD data
35,00
30,00
25,00
20,00
15,00
10,00
5,00
0,00
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Czech Republic Poland Slovakia
Figure 3. Wood and wood and cork products import penetration indicator
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