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Economic Globalization is one of the most important challenges in many countries, specifically in the developing countries. Determination of the level of Iran's trade integration in world economy can help to find out the situation and capabilities of Iranian economy to enter globalization process. Measuring the level of Iran's trade integration by use of intra-industry trade (lIT) index over the period (1373-82) shows that: in one third of tariff chapters the average of IIT is zero or near to zero. This implies that the level of globalization and trade integration in Iranian
Economy is very low. Measuring the comparative advantages in Iran by use of Balance's revealed comparative advantage (RCA) index shows that; Iran has advantages in producing and exporting goods based on static (natural) comparative
Advantage.
JEL Classification: FI, CO, C2.