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Intra-industry trade (IIT), a recently emerging concept in the foreign trade litareture, is defined as exchange of goods in forms of export and import within the same industry. Purpose of this study is to examine the intra-industry trade development of the Turkish chemical industry export/import activity with some forefront countries such as, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Greece, Holland, Spain, France, Switzerland, Hungary, Belgium, England, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic of European Union member countries and Bulgaria, Romania of EU candidate countries; Russian Federation, Ukraine and China. First, static analysis has been made, with data of chemical industry product category in accordance with 5 digit SITC Rev.3 for the period of 1990-2005. Then, dynamic analysis has been conducted to determine marginal intra industry trade using Brülhart’s A and B indexes

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