Industry Economics & Competitiveness
Track manufacturing competitiveness in every Industry Economics & Competitiveness country report — updated monthly
Industry-Specific Rankings
Each country report includes a dedicated ranking for manufacturing, showing how that country compares with others.
Monthly Reports, Fresh Decisions
Monitor how country positions in manufacturing evolve with each monthly update.
What Drives Each Industry Ranking
See how labor, energy, taxes, infrastructure, markets, trade, and other forces shape each country's competitiveness.
Country-by-Country View
Browse previews from different country reports to see where each country stands in this industry.
Competitiveness, Country by Country
Intratec Industry Economics & Competitiveness ranks how competitive each covered country is for manufacturing — and explains the forces pushing each country up or down.
Each report focuses on one country and includes a dedicated ranking, alongside rankings for six other commodity industries. The analysis breaks down the cost, market, infrastructure, trade, and policy factors shaping that country's position.
Browse country previews to see how different countries rank for manufacturing and what explains their performance.
Preview Industry Rankings by Country
Each preview shows how competitive the selected country is for manufacturing compared with the other countries covered.
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Industry Economics & Competitiveness in this country
May 2026 · Advanced Edition
Monthly report on this country's competitiveness across the major commodity industries, with a breakdown of the cost, market, and structural forces shaping each ranking.
How We Measure Industries Competitiveness
Each country’s industry rankings are built from competitiveness pillars covering labor, energy, taxes, infrastructure, markets, trade, and other forces that shape manufacturing competitiveness.
Manufacturing Labor Costs
What an hour of manufacturing labor really costs — wages plus benefits and taxes, adjusted by workforce productivity.
Construction Labor Costs
The same hourly-cost view, applied to construction and installation workers.
Capital & Construction Costs
How competitive the country is for building industrial plants, based on relative construction cost factors for materials, labor, taxes, freight, and local execution conditions.
Energy & Utilities Costs
What industrial users pay for electricity, natural gas, steam, water, and other process utilities.
Logistics & Infrastructure
How well the country moves goods and supports manufacturing — ports, roads, rail, utility infrastructure, and investment.
Freight Costs
What it costs to move freight in and out of the country — maritime and inland, import and export.
Macroeconomic Environment
The financial climate manufacturers operate in — currency stability, inflation, and interest rates.
Domestic Tax Environment
The tax burden on manufacturing operations — corporate income tax and indirect taxes.
Commodity Prices
Local USD prices for industrial commodities across all seven industries — lower prices mean a stronger cost position.
Feedstock-to-Product Margins
The spread between product prices and feedstock costs — the operating margin environment, industry by industry.
Industrial Production
How much each industry actually manufactures in the country, benchmarked against the program.
Global Trade Integration
Exports, imports, and net trade position for each industry.
Tariff Protection & Market Access
The tariff rates each industry faces, on imports into the country and on exports abroad.
Domestic Market Size
How big the domestic market is for each industry's products.
