Turkey's foreign trade policy in the harmonization process to EU

In the period that we live the 21st century, a tremendous change process isrealized in economic and commercial developments in the World. The major factorthat determines the change is globalisation. Geographical remoteness as a factor forrestricting supply of products and services has been overcome and polarizations inthe World trade as a result of increased integrations at regional level are formed.This change that the globalisation has created in the trade environment hasalso reflected on the foreign trade strategies applied by the countries. While productsthat depended on labor intensive technology were subject to trade in the 1980s,today demand for products that have high technological added value for each inputitem is increasing fast in the world trade. Trade of developed countries shifts to thistechnology intensive sectors that have high resource income.In the harmonization process to European Union, Turkey? s accurateperception and interpretation of this process that the globalization has created,support of its economic and social development with the foreign policy in a waythorough increasing national wealth in this period called as information age, sellingmore value added products and services in the markets where internationalcompetition is dominant are very important for the profits that Turkey will obtainfrom foreign trade and with respect to increasing the share that it will get from worldtrade.In the study, Turkey?s foreign trade policy starting from Ottomans to today isconsidered theoretically, next EU?s Common Trade Policy is discussed in generaloutline and the requirements that Turkey should meet in order to harmonizeCommon Trade Policy are put forward. Then, in the final stage barriers in front ofTurkey?s foreign trade policy and solution suggesions are expressed. Finally, astrategic model towards Turkey?s obtaining more share from the new foreign tradesetting is suggested.