(مجتمع فولاد مباركه ) WTO محاسبه توان رقابت هزينه اي واحدهاي توليدي فولاد با پيوستن ايران به

Determination of the Degree of Cost Competitiveness for Iran Joining to the WTO (Mobarakeh Steel Case Study)

In recent years, joining Iran to the WTO (World Trade Organization) is a hot-debated topic among policy-makers businessmen and academicians. It will be torn between the allure of better access to foreign markets and the fear of new competition in existing markets. So some questions arise such as following: will we be able to compete? What are our competitive strengths and weaknesses? How much our performance improves and to what extent? What is the impact of current government policies? What will be the result of policy reforms? What constructive role remains for government? It is therefore surprising that the numerous lessons from economic theory contains in these regards have not been harnessed to respond to these controversial questions. So, this paper presents a method which draws on economic theory to measure cost competitiveness and its sources at the firm and industry levels. The concept of competitiveness that we use in the present study is one of cost competitiveness as measured by unit cost ratio. In other words, a firm or an industry is deemed to be competitive if its unit costs are inferior or equal to the unit costs of its domestic or international rivals and before or after joining to WTO. Also this study focuses on the sources of competitive advantage. Two types of sources are distinguished: first the real sources of competitiveness such as factor productivity and factor abundance, whicgive pave to comparative advantage and second, various price distortions of products and factors of productions, which may either enhance or diminish competitiveness. To do so we measure and analyze the cost competitiveness of "Mobarake Steel Complex". We will measure the cost competitiveness of this company in whole level in first step and for every product in the second step.