Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
International Studies in Economics and Administrative Sciences, Mete Mustafa,Topbaş Aytaç,Mermertaş Funda, Editör, Serüven Yayınevi, Ankara, ss.133-150, 2023
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international trade liberalization, rapid integration of national economies,
and technological advancements in the logistics chain have resulted in
significant changes in the structure of sectoral production. Also, the demand
for cheaper and higher-quality imported inputs has increased in the markets
with the support of economic policies promoting free trade. There has been a
substantial transformation in the requirement for foreign capital and
intermediate goods in the food industry in Turkey. Therefore, it has been significant
to examined the dependency on imports in the production structure of the food
industry and analyze the effectiveness of industrialization policies. The purpose
of this study is to investigate the use of imported intermediate inputs and the
degree of dependence on imports in the food industry in Turkey. The study
utilized the input-output table published by the World Input-Output Database in
2016, which represented the most recent data available. The dependency on
imports has been examined by analyzing the linkage effects through the
computation of the Leontief inverse import matrix method. According to the
findings of the study, the dependency on imports for intermediate inputs in the
food sector has been calculated as 11%. Furthermore, it has been determined
that when the final demand in the food sector increases by 1 unit, the total
amount of required imported inputs increases by 0.1970 units. Moreover, it has been found that when the
final demand of all sectors in Turkey increases by one unit, the total quantity
of products that need to be imported from foreign food sectors increases by
0.1330 units. The share of the top five sectors, which have the highest total
forward linkage effects in imports, has been computed as 55% of the total
imported food. The highest import intensity in the food sector are agricultural
products, chemical products, and petroleum products. It is believed that
priority should be given to sectors in the food industry that have a
significant level of import input intensity, and it is thought that import
dependency in the food sector will be reduced through increased investments
within the framework of the developed policies.