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Journal of Economic and Social Research 10(2) 2008, 25-4 1 Revealed Comparative Advantage and Competitiveness: A Case Study for Turkey towards the EU Vildan Serin* Abdulkadir Civan Abstract. This paper seeks to quantify the extent to which Turkey has a comparative advantage in the tomato, olive oil, and fruit juice industries and how this has changed over the period 1995-2005 in the EU market. To study Turkeys competitiveness and its progress two widely used indexes are calculated : the revealed comparative advantage (RCA) and the comparative export performance (CEP) index. In addition, import demand functions of the EU are estimated for rival countries. Using regression analysis we hypothesize that if Turkey is a competitor for these countries, its price will have a statistically significant effect on export demand functions. Both index and regression results indicate that Turkey has a strikingly high comparative advantage in the fruit juice and olive oil markets in the EU but this is not the case in the tomato market. JEL Classification Codes: QIO, Q17, F14. Keywords: Agriculture, Fruit and Vegetable Industry, Competitiveness, Revealed Comparative Advantage, Comparative Export Performance, EU, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Italy. 1. Introduction In 1995 Turkey signed the Customs Union Agreement with the European Union. A Customs Union (CU) has been in place for industrial and processed agricultural products since January 1996. However, the Customs Union does not cover a number of essential areas, such as traditional *^Fatih