A Study on Trade Competitiveness in Automobile Distribution Business

This study undertake to figure out 2 country’s trade structure to accelerate Korea-USA economic cooperations and find out trade discrepancy to increase trade volume through improvement direction and eventually, look for way of trade expansion. In order to analyze trade decision factor of both 2 countries, Indexes of TSI and RCA invented by trade specialization theory and revealed comparative advantage are used to analyze them. Even though specific factor should be materialized in terms of analysis of trade decision factor, realistically, concreted explanations are difficult as there are so many unsolved factors and its diversifications. First, So, Korea is taking comparative advantage of export specialization. Second, RCA indexes are considerably improved compared to that of 2000. This research is analyzed by quantitative measurement with, trade specialization and revealed comparative advantage index to see how inter-trade relations are changed over past 10 years.