Evaluation of Competitiveness in Auto Distribution Industry between Korea and Russia

This study undertake to figure out 2 country’s trade structure to accelerate Korea-Russia economic cooperations and find out trade discrepancy to increase trade volume through improvement direction and eventually, look for way of trade expansion. To analyze trade decision factor of both 2 countries, Index of trade specialization invented by trade specialization theory is used to analyze it. 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, these Index of A value/ B value means Korean against Russia market share/Korean against world market share, of which is comparative market competitiveness. Second, So, Korea is taking comparative advantage of export specialization. Third, 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, market share to see how inter-trade relations are changed over past 10 years. It is understood that Korea has sufficient production capability with competitiveness against Russia car industry, and overwhelmingly dominant market share against Russia car export to world market.