Özet:

Turkey has a long past including political, cultural, and economic relationships with Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Egypt, Syrian and Tunisia that were affected Arab Spring and Palestine, Iraq, Iran, and Israel that are in The Middle East. In this study, changing of foreign trade data of wood-based boards (WBBs) products such as MDF, particleboard, melamine faced-particleboard, plywood, OSB, and cement-bonded particleboard between Turkey and countries above mentioned was examined for the 2010-2019 period. According to data obtained, the foreign trade of WBBs products with those countries (countries in the region) has $ 1.813.788.000 foreign trade volume. Turkey’s export was $ 1.810.965.000 and import was $ 2.823.000. Iran has the maximum amount with $ 951.919.000 and Palestine has the minimum amount with $ 13.000 at Turkey’s WBBs products foreign trade. It was seen that Turkey’s foreign trade of WBBs products with Iran, Iraq, Israel and Palestine was not affected by Arab Spring. Conversely, it was started to decrease by 2010 and then started to recovered by 2013 in other countries. MDF has the highest value with $ 1.558.512.000 and OSB has the least value with $ 3.300.000 in Turkey’s WBBs export to countries in the region. The most imported WBBs product by Turkey was plywood with $ 2.597.00 value and the least imported WBBs products were OSB and cement bonded particle board which each has $ 2.000 value.

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