Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
KASTAMONU UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF FORESTRY FACULTY, cilt.12, sa.1, ss.8-19, 2012 (ESCI)
Along with the economic globalization, many countries want to get more shares at the world trade volume by reducing the barriers in trade. If the trade, which is done in general product groups, is analyzed correctly by trade partners, it will make a contribution to the economic growth and development. In Turkey; the position of forest products industry's foreign trade volume, is far away from the expected. With the future researches, the existing deficiencies will be seen and the deserved position in the foreign trade will be taken. In this study, the exportation values of Turkish forest industry in the world between 2003-2008 years were examined by gravity model. Exportation values were used as dependent variables. Industrial wood amount of the countries, economic size of trading countries, populations of the countries, distances between capital cities, language and border neighbourhoods of the countries were used as independent variables. According to the results, it was determined that, GDP of exporting countries have positive effect on trade flows. The size of the economy and population of countries have positive effect on trade flow but the distance has negative effect on it. Empirical findings show that there is a positive and strong relationship between forest products trade and foreign trade in Turkey.