우리나라 타이어산업의 국제특화 및 비교우위 분석

Korean tire industry has so rapidly grown up since 1970 and give a positive effect to the growth of national economy through the export expansion. The purpose of this study is to find policy suggestions and efficient strategy by empirically analyzing international specialization and comparative advantage of Korean tire industry. Therefore, this paper calculates and compares the international specialization and comparative advantage of Korean tire industry, using the BI, the BIS, the MI, and the TSI during the time period(2003∼2005, 2008～1010), to check whether these indies demonstrate the same trend or not. The empirical results show Korean Tire industry has got high comparative advantage in the industry category HS 4011 and HS 4013, whereas HS 4012 demonstrates low comparative advantage for the same period. Based upon the empirical results, this paper suggests efficient strategy. First, the government looking for increasing the overall competitive edge of a particular sector could draw resources from the vulnerable and less competitive product categories and move to the more competitive ones, Second, Korean tire industry should be transformed from producing low-quality product to producing high quality product to acquire export competitiveness. Because, Korean tire industry due to various external and internal factors, has met a strong competition with world tire industry by increasing supply.