Moldova's trade with agri-food productson international markets

This paper examines the transformations that occurred in Moldova'sforeign trade on international markets, with focus on agricultural and food commodities. The research includes the analysis of Moldova's foreign trade activity with agricultural and food commodities, the changes that occurred in their structure, territorial distribution dynamics and competitiveness. The data used examines the trade flows within the last decade, regarding the agricultural and food trade products. The methodology is based on the analysis of trade indicators results as Relative Trade Advantages (RTA) and Grubel-Lloyd (GL) index. From the obtained results, most Moldova's trade flows had been of inter-industry type. Regarding RTA index results, we delimitate trade advantages in the case of six agri-food commodities. High magnitudes of intra-industry trade, according to the average GL indices results have certain commodities as: live animals, sugar, meat, dairy produce, animal or vegetable fats and oils, residues, preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts, preparations of cereals, beverages.