The main objective of this project is the dissemination of key industry information at economy level to increase the competitiveness of APEC economies due to the availability of a consistent productivity dataset. The longer term impact is to strengthen economic growth, investment, trade and business capacity, delivering development benefits for communities and resources for expanding industries. This objective is achieved by creating a sustainable and robust methodology for data collection along with completing a repository of information.

This report provides the key findings and conclusions of the study covering 13 commodities across 21 APEC economies.