Indonesian tuna position in the international market

Abstract

Abstract The potential of Indonesia fishery has been utilized well by Indonesia although not managed optimally. The contribution of fisheries to GDP Indonesia of the year 2010-2013 experienced a positive trend means fisheries Indonesia has the potential to be further developed next year. Every year, the competition of fresh tuna fish commodities in the world market continues to increase because that need for research on the competitiveness of Indonesian tuna on world markets. This study used secondary data taken from international trade center by using 6 HS commodity tuna of HS 0302031-HS0302036. The analysis used in this research is the analysis of RCA (Revealed Comparative Advantages) and the CMSA (Constant Market Share). The RCA result showed that there were three commodity tuna with competitiveness comparative namely HS 0302032, 0302033 and 0302034. Each type of commodity the tuna fish has a market share almost the same relative is Japan. This represents Japanese are the target market after regulations in the European Union market. Results of the estimation CMSA describes the effects of the most dominant influence on Indonesian tuna exports in the world market is the competitiveness effect.