Abstract:

The New Foreign Trade Theories are amongst the influences of factors such as industrial trade, the influence of multinational companies, the scale economies and product differentiation. The automotive industry, which has an important place in the world trade, is one of the sectors where consumer preferences are trying to be influenced by companies. Manufacturers, the design of the vehicles they produce, motor power, comfort, safety, fuel consumption, etc. They try to increase their market share by convincing consumers that they are different and superior to others. In recent years, Turkey has also gained an important place in the world’s automotive trade with the production facilities opened by foreign brands. In the study, Turkey’s selected five EU countries and the automotive sector will try to reveal the industrial domestic trade, which means mutual foreign trade between the countries, with the help of the Grubel-Lloyd index. For this purpose the thesis, articles, books, etc. on the subject. It has been used by written and electronic sources and statistics published by TIK.

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