Product Overview

What is Intratec Industry Economics & Competitiveness?

Industry Economics & Competitiveness (IIE) is an annual subscription program delivering monthly country-level reports that rank manufacturing attractiveness across the world's leading commodity-producing economies.

Each report focuses on a single country and benchmarks it against a fixed 33-country global universe. The analysis compares the country's manufacturing environment across a range of economic and structural drivers, then rolls those comparisons up into industry rankings and an overall competitiveness rank — showing where the country stands today and how its position is shifting from month to month.

The product is sold by country: subscribers choose a plan tier (Starter, Pro, Advanced, or Ultimate) and select the countries to cover. Reports are delivered monthly as PDFs, with deeper analysis, longer history, and additional automation features unlocked at higher plan tiers. Starting price is $199 USD per year for a single-country Starter subscription.

Which countries does it rank?

Industry Economics & Competitiveness ranks 33 countries representing the world's leading manufacturing economies across North and South America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East:

United States, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and United Kingdom.

The same 33-country universe is used in every report. When you subscribe to a single country, you receive a report focused on that country, but the country is always benchmarked against the full universe.

Which industries are covered?

Industry Economics & Competitiveness analyzes manufacturing attractiveness across seven major commodity-based industries:

• Olefins & Derivatives
• Aromatics & Derivatives
• Alcohols & Organic Acids
• Polymers
• Fertilizers & Gases
• Inorganic Chemicals
• Metals & Mining

Every country report covers all seven industries — they are different lenses through which national manufacturing competitiveness is evaluated. The analysis surfaces which industries are most attractive in a given country and how each industry's competitiveness compares across the 33-country universe.

What economic and structural drivers does the analysis cover?

Industry Economics & Competitiveness evaluates 15 different factors that shape how attractive a country is for manufacturing — nine that apply to every industry (like labor costs and energy prices) and six that capture the dynamics specific to each commodity sector (like profit margins or trade barriers).

Think of the analysis as taking two views of the same country:

The general business environment (9 drivers). These describe conditions that affect every manufacturer in the country, regardless of what they make:

• Manufacturing labor costs — what it costs to hire and operate a factory workforce, adjusted for productivity differences between countries
• Construction labor costs — what it costs to staff a major plant build
• Capital and construction costs — what it costs to physically build a manufacturing plant locally
• Energy and utilities costs — how expensive it is to power and run an industrial site (electricity, gas, steam, process water, and other utilities)
• Logistics and infrastructure — the quality of roads, ports, rail networks, and overall supply-chain readiness
• Freight costs — how expensive it is to move goods in and out of the country
• Macroeconomic environment — the stability and predictability of the economy (inflation, currency, growth, interest rates)
• Domestic tax environment — how heavily manufacturing is taxed and what fiscal incentives exist
• Domestic market potential — how large and affluent the local market is for manufactured goods overall

The industry-specific dynamics (6 drivers, evaluated separately for each of the seven industries covered). These describe the commercial reality of producing a specific type of commodity in this country:

• Commodity prices — what local prices look like for the products of that industry
• Feedstock-to-product margins — the spread between raw-material costs and finished-product prices (the basic profitability of producing here)
• Industrial production — how much of the commodity is already produced locally
• Global trade integration — how connected the country is to global supply chains for that industry
• Tariff protection and market access — the trade barriers protecting local producers and the access they have to foreign markets
• Domestic market size — how big the local appetite for that specific commodity is

Each driver gets a 0–100 score where 50 = the average of the 33-country universe, so a glance is enough to see whether the country is above or below the global norm. The drivers then roll up into industry-level scores and an overall competitiveness score, all shown alongside the country's rank in the universe.

How are subscriptions structured?

Subscriptions to Industry Economics & Competitiveness are annual and organized along two axes: a plan tier (Starter, Pro, Advanced, or Ultimate) and a country-count configuration based on how many countries you want to cover.

Plan tiers differ in analytical depth, historical horizon, delivery formats, automation, and licensing rights:

Country-count pricing is linear from 1 to 4 countries; the All-33 bundle is priced as 5× a single-country subscription. One active plan applies to the entire subscription — countries added later enter the current plan, and country count cannot be reduced once subscribed.

Self-service starting prices: Starter $199 USD/year, Pro $299 USD/year, Advanced from $499 USD/year (per country). Ultimate is consultative, starting at $1,899 USD.

Can I try the product before subscribing?

Free trials are not offered for Industry Economics & Competitiveness. Several free resources are available so you can evaluate the product in depth before committing to a subscription:

• Sample report — a representative country edition that shows the report's structure, analytical layers, and data presentation
• Methodology documents — explanations of how pillar scores, country rankings, and the competitiveness framework are built
• Preview reports — previews with approximately one year of historical data, limited compared to full subscription history

These resources let you assess the product's analytical scope, methodology rigor, and report format firsthand. They're available on the Industry Economics & Competitiveness product page at intratec.us, alongside subscription pricing and plan details.