In Turkey, few studies carried out import demand
analysis for various agricultural products. Goktolga
(2006) studied import demand for meat and products,
Kizilaslan and Kizilaslan (2006) focused on import
demand for vegetable oil and products industry;
Karkacier (2000) analyzed factors affecting import
demand for dairy products, Hatirli et al. (2002) examined
import demand for sunflower and soybean oil,
Thomakos and Ulubasoglu (2002) studied on econometric
estimates of import demand elasticity’s for Turkey
for the period 1970-1995 using disaggregated.
To capture most of the variation of the explanatory
variables (import prices, domestic prices and expenditures)
with the instruments, they selected the exogenous
variables from the three largest trading partners
of Turkey for each product group (aluminum, coal,
wheat). Grethe (2004) analyzed quantitatively the inclusion
of all agricultural products in the CU between