Solution Overview

What is Intratec Industry Economics & Competitiveness?

Industry Economics & Competitiveness (IE&C) is an annual subscription program delivering monthly country-level reports that rank manufacturing competitiveness 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, showing where the country stands today and how its position is shifting from month to month. How many pillars does the report use? and How is the overall competitiveness view assembled? on our methodology site cover how that comparison is built and rolled up into rankings.

The solution 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 $20 USD/month, billed annually, 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 competitiveness across seven major commodity-based industries:

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

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 14 pillars that shape how attractive a country is for manufacturing — eight Base Pillars that apply to every industry (like labor costs and energy prices) and six Specific Pillars that capture the dynamics specific to each commodity sector (like profit margins or trade barriers).

A pillar is one of the structural dimensions the analysis tracks. The framework takes two views of the same country: a structural operating environment shared by every manufacturer, regardless of what they make (the 8 Base Pillars), and industry-specific dynamics evaluated separately for each of the seven industries covered (the 6 Specific Pillars). Together the two layers cover both what it generally costs to operate in a country and what it's like to compete there in your specific sector.

How are pillars split into Base and Industry-Specific?, Which pillars apply to every commodity family?, and Which pillars change by industry? on our methodology site name and define each of the 14. How is a country scored from 0 to 100, and what does 50 mean? covers how the scoring scale works.

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:

Plan	What it adds
Starter	Executive monitoring format; 1-year monthly history; online PDF only
Pro	Full pillar-by-pillar breakdown; 3-year quarterly history; downloadable PDF
Advanced	10-year annual history; printable PDF; 4 Reference Datasets (Plant Construction Cost Indexes, Plant Location Factors, Labor Costs & Productivity Factors, Industrial Utility Costs); Excel Add-In, Power BI, and Web API access
Ultimate	Same content base as Advanced, plus broader internal access, third-party sharing, and integration rights — pricing and scope are negotiated

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 $20 USD/month, Pro $30 USD/month, Advanced starting at $40 USD/month (per country, billed annually). Ultimate is consultative, starting at $129 USD/month.

Can I try the solution before subscribing?

Free trials are not offered for Industry Economics & Competitiveness. Several free resources are available so you can evaluate the solution 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, published free and without a login on our methodology site
• Preview reports — previews with approximately one year of historical data, limited compared to full subscription history

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