Investigating of Comparative Advantage of Iran's Exports of Sports Goods

Investigation of the Competitive Advantages and the level of the Competitiveness of the Products, firms and the industries existed in each Country is a Fundamental step in understanding the existing Situation and the outlook of the Industry. It is also an introduction for a strategic and long term planning and sport industry is not an exception. So the Present research deals with Understanding of the Competitive power of the Iran's Sport Product Exports during 2000-2010. It is an Applied research and in Terms of data Collection it is an analytical survey. The data related to the Iran's Export of Sport products during 2000-2010 has been Collected based on the international Organization data and Central Product Classification (CPC) in five categories: Shoes, cloth, different kinds of balls, sport-recreation boats and miscellaneous goods. After processing the data using Revealed Symmetric Comparative Advantage (RSCA), it was analyzed by Excel Software. The results Revealed that Iran has a Competitive Advantage in the export of Sport cloths and shoes but in terms of recreational boats, balls and other sports equipment doesnt have any competitive power. Therefore, extra attention to the Economical firms in this area seems to be necessary.