Comparative Advantage of Yarn and Weaving Industries: Evidence for Türkiye and Top Exporters

HS Code	Year	RTA				RC				RSCA
HS Code	Year	US	IN	CN	TR	US	IN	CN	TR	US	IN	CN	TR
5205	2000	0.09	23.22	−1.17	7.99	0.30	5.34	−0.37	1.67	−0.47	0.92	0.44	0.82
	2010	0.92	15.30	−1.30	−0.87	2.28	5.01	−0.64	−0.25	0.01	0.88	0.19	0.50
	2021	0.72	16.70	−2.89	0.39	2.48	5.90	−2.12	0.08	−0.12	0.89	−0.43	0.66
	Mean	0.75	15.37	−2.14	1.26	2.05	5.09	−1.03	0.32	−0.09	0.98	0.11	0.61
5206	2000	−0.04	1.09	0.07	2.53	−0.08	5.11	0.03	1.53	−0.41	0.05	0.36	0.53
	2010	0.27	0.69	−0.10	2.39	1.02	2.69	−0.04	1.42	−0.41	−0.15	0.43	0.52
	2021	0.47	6.50	−0.01	3.79	1.96	4.09	−0.01	1.37	−0.30	0.74	0.15	0.67
	Mean	0.41	1.68	−0.06	2.07	1.21	3.32	−0.02	1.10	−0.27	0.16	0.13	0.55
5207	2000	−0.49	98.68	0.17	1.71	−1.55	5.86	1.17	2.11	−0.77	0.98	−0.60	3.89
	2010	−0.62	7.93	0.32	1.59	−1.29	4.80	2.10	1.65	−0.62	0.78	−0.47	3.94
	2021	−0.67	0.24	−0.01	8.75	−1.50	2.55	−0.02	2.81	−0.68	−0.58	−0.31	18.62
	Mean	−0.30	29.15	0.31	3.88	−0.77	5.05	1.88	2.50	−0.44	0.35	−0.43	8.38
5208	2000	−0.11	8.73	2.53	1.86	−0.31	4.04	0.72	0.89	−0.52	0.80	9.87	0.52
	2010	−0.16	2.67	4.36	−0.68	−1.08	1.84	2.47	−0.24	−0.85	0.52	9.52	0.43
	2021	−0.36	5.31	3.41	0.96	−1.64	2.74	3.27	0.55	−0.84	0.70	7.08	0.39
	Mean	−0.17	4.27	3.57	0.50	−1.00	2.35	2.17	0.26	−0.75	0.62	8.72	0.44
5209	2000	0.40	5.85	0.22	4.93	0.66	4.17	0.07	1.10	−0.09	0.71	0.50	0.76
	2010	0.43	1.91	1.59	4.55	1.04	1.93	0.91	0.82	−0.20	0.38	0.45	0.78
	2021	0.26	4.95	1.94	0.25	0.85	3.09	1.97	0.04	−0.38	0.68	0.39	0.75
	Mean	0.42	3.37	1.39	2.86	0.96	2.27	0.93	0.58	−0.20	0.55	0.44	0.75

Table 2.

Trade Specialisation Indices of Major Exporting Countries

Source: Authors’ own calculation

HS Code	Year	US	IN	CN	TR
5205	2000	−0,16	0.99	−0.22	0.38
	2010	0,74	0.98	−0.62	−0,32
	2021	0,78	0.99	−0,71	−0,01
	Mean	0,57	0.98	−0.36	−0.01
5206	2000	−0.26	0,98	0.06	0.40
	2010	0,33	0.82	0.09	0.47
	2021	0,66	0.96	0.17	0.57
	Mean	0,36	0.83	0.13	0.36
5207	2000	−0.33	1,00	0.86	0.88
	2010	−0.65	0.98	0.83	0.58
	2021	−0.80	0.77	0.03	0.84
	Mean	−0.40	0.93	0.75	0.81
5208	2000	−0,35	0.96	0.40	0.12
	2010	−0.64	0.60	0.86	−0.34
	2021	−0.70	0.88	0.96	0.38
	Mean	−0.57	0.75	0.78	−0.02
5209	2000	0.12	0.96	0.10	0.22
	2010	0.28	0.62	0.47	0.15
	2021	0.19	0.88	0.81	−0.26
	Mean	0.26	0.75	0.49	0.12

*Product mapping of Türkiye’s and India’s cotton yarn and cotton weaving industries (Pre MFA repeal)*

*Product mapping of Türkiye’s and India’s cotton yarn and cotton weaving industries (Post MFA repeal)*

Table 3.

Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient for Major Exporting Countries (2000-2021)

Source: Authors’ own calculation

HS Code	US	IN	CN	TR
5205	0,51**	0,21	−0,98*	−0,43**
5206	0,47**	0.37	−0,67*	0,82*
5207	0,31	−0,99*	0,74*	0,94*
5208	−0,87*	−0,12	−0,17	−0,86*
5209	−0,81*	−0,08	−0,79*	0,34

1 Significant at * 1%, ** 5%

Table 4.

Descriptive statistics for RSCA

Source: Authors’ own calculation

HS code	Period	Mean	Std Dev.	Min	Max	Median
5205	2000-2004	0.42	0.40	−0.41	0.88	0.58
5205	2017-2021	0.30	0.48	−0.44	0.89	0.29
5206	2000-2004	0.17	0.32	−0.45	0.48	0.41
5206	2017-2021	0.30	0.35	−0.30	0.74	0.34
5207	2000-2004	0.92	1.90	−0.67	5.31	0.91
5207	2017-2021	3.92	7.72	−0.68	19.31	−0.24
5208	2000-2004	2.23	3.52	−0.81	8.71	0.81
5208	2017-2021	2.05	3.62	−0.88	8.88	0.51
5209	2000-2004	0.40	0.33	−0.19	0.75	0.48
5209	2017-2021	0.30	0.48	−0.43	0.89	0.51

Table 5.

Sector-wise export specialisation patterns between 2000-2004 and 2017-2021

Source: Authors’ own calculation

HS code	RSCA^t1_ij = RSCA^t2ij	R²_ij	β_ij	\|β_ij\|/\|R_ij\|
5205	0.79	0.54	0.87*	1.39
5206	0.74	0.70	0.89*	1.13
5207	0.30	0.51	1.18*	2.74
5208	0.89	0.91	1.17*	1.51
5209	0.78	0.82	1.14*	1.59

1 Significant at * 1%, ** 5%

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ftee-2023-0003 | Journal eISSN: 2300-7354 | Journal ISSN: 1230-3666

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Published on: Apr 19, 2023

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