Catalan firms and the distribution of products in Europe |
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Authors: | Manuel Cantos M De Los Angeles Gil Jordi Melé Lourdes Viladomiu Mireia Aparicio Jordi Martí |
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Institution: | (1) Escola Universitària del Maresme, Spain;(2) Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain;(3) Universitat de Barcelona, Spain;(4) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain |
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Abstract: | The food industry sector has seen major changes in the ways it needs to compete. Spain became linked to the European Community
in the early 1970s by an adherence treaty which regulated food exports to the member countries. Subsequently, when Spain became
a full European Community member in January 1986, both exports and imports to and from countries (Mediterranean or otherwise)
became regulated. There had not previously been a tradition of trade links with most of these countries. After 10 years of
full coexistence with the other European members, it is possible to test the effect of free circulation of goods, the major
presence of community multinationals in the markets, the restructuring of the food industry sector, and the penetration of
Spanish products in European markets. At present, the objectives of economic convergence contemplated in the Maastricht Treaty
call for the control of macroeconomic variables (particularly inflation) which affect the food industry (by virtue of its
special characteristics) far more than the remaining sectors because of its peculiarities.
This paper is a summary and extension of a broader study conducted by Lourdes Viladomiu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona),
María de los Angeles Gil Estallo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Jordi Melé (Universitat de Barcelona), and Manuel Cantos (Universitat
Pompeu Fabra) financed by the Fundació Empresa i Ciència of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. |
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