Czech farmers are convinced that domestic food producers are discriminated against foreign producers on the Czech markets. The main argument is that market prices of the Czech food products are higher than the prices of comparable food products from abroad with respect to ownership of the foreign capital. It was necessary to determine whether and how differ trade margins for the domestic and import products. The Czech margins were calculated as the share of the domestic food prices (DP) on the consumer prices (CP) and import margins as the share of the imported food prices (IP) on CP. For these calculations the model AGRO-2014 was used. It is a mathematical model of the agrarian sector which is going out from agricultural production, over processing of agricultural raw materials on food, distribution to stores and subsequent consumption. Calculation of margins for the consumer basket includes such food groups for which there exist all kinds of prices. For that "market basket" there was calculated total "fictitious" sum of the entries in the DP, IP and CP. The results show that the average margin for the Czech food was 35.5 %, while filling the "market basket" only for the imported food resulted to the average margin 34.9 %.
Foltýn, I., Štiková, O., Mrhálková, I.
Proceedings of „Agrarian Perspectives XXIV. – Global Agribusiness and Rural Economy“. International Scientific Conference, 2015, p. 126-134, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Economics and Management © 2015, ISBN 978-80-213-2581-4; ISSN 2464-4781 (Online); ISSN 1213-7960 (Print); ISSN 1213-7979 (CD-ROM)