TY - JOUR T1 - Foreign Trade Sectors and Economic Growth AU - Ozbey, Nurullah AU - Azgun, Sabri JO - Research Journal of Applied Sciences VL - 5 IS - 2 SP - 54 EP - 58 PY - 2010 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1815-932x DO - rjasci.2010.54.58 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjasci.2010.54.58 KW - Economic growth KW -foreign trade KW -causality KW -JEL classification KW -F43 KW -F41 KW -C32 AB - The purpose of this study is to determine the role of foreign trade sectors in economic growth, beyond testing the validity of growth hypothesis directed to export for Turkey’s economy. For this purpose, the roles of total export, agricultural export, industrial export and mining export together with total import, capital goods import, consumption import and raw material import are analysed in economic growth. The gained results reveal the findings that industrial export, capital goods and raw material import are the determinants in the economic growth. ER -