Evolución del perfil sectorial del comercio exterior en la provincia de León, 1995-2014
ISSN: 1699-9495
Year of publication: 2013
Issue Title: Estudios de Economía Leonesa (XXV Aniversario de la creación de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales) /coordinado por José Luis Placer Galán
Issue: 1
Pages: 295-320
Type: Article
More publications in: Pecunia: revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
Abstract
In the last decades foreign trade has experienced a significant growth both in Spain and Leon economies, whereas the latter has always been characterized by a strong focus on domestic trade. The goal of this paper is dual: find out the evolution of foreign trade importance within the whole productive activity in Leon and sector profile of its trade flows during the period from 1995 to 2014.On the one hand, the analysis carried out highlights that productive activities focused on foreign trade have doubled in the last twenty years, especially in the recent five. On the other hand, export sectors have changed mainly, from exporting pharmaceutical chemistry products and extractors to currently exporting electrical equipment and metal assembly. However, import sectors that are more diversified than export, have maintained a similar sector profile during the full period analysed. Import sectors in Leon are mainly focused on legumes and in a smaller proportion on electrical appliance equipment and metal assembly.