| Assessment |
Intratec's published value for a price or cost, produced by its methodology. |
| Assessment basis |
The specification a value refers to: location, grade/quality, and delivery terms. |
| CAPEX (Capital expenditures) |
The investment cost of building or expanding a plant. |
| Capital investment |
Total capital required to bring a plant into operation. |
| Cash cost |
The recurring out-of-pocket operating cost, excluding capital recovery. |
| cfr (Cost and Freight) |
An Incoterm: price includes cost and freight to the destination port, excluding insurance. |
| cif (Cost, Insurance and Freight) |
An Incoterm: price includes cost, insurance, and freight to the destination port. |
| Commodity family |
One of the seven industry groups the IIE covers (e.g. Polymers, Fertilizers). |
| Compiled price |
A price built from validated public-source series, cleaned of anomalies and averaged over the month. |
| Contract price |
A price for supply under contract terms, as opposed to spot. |
| ddp (Delivered Duty Paid) |
An Incoterm: the seller delivers goods cleared for import, with all costs and duties paid. |
| Final (Fi) |
Data status label for verified official statistics. |
| Forecast (F) |
Data status label for a forward-looking model prediction. |
| Foundation pillar |
One of the 8 base pillars applied to every commodity family. |
| Industry-Specific pillar |
One of the 6 pillars evaluated separately per commodity family. |
| ISBL (Inside Battery Limits) |
The core process units of a plant. |
| Location factor |
A multiplier for relative plant construction cost between countries (reference = 1.00). |
| Netback |
A value at the loading terminal, derived by subtracting freight from a destination price. |
| Netforward |
A value at the destination terminal, derived by adding freight to a loading price. |
| Normalization |
Aligning values to a common basis so figures are comparable. |
| OSBL (Outside Battery Limits) |
Supporting infrastructure of a plant (utilities, storage, offsites). |
| Pillar |
One dimension of competitiveness, scored 0–100. |
| Preliminary (P) |
Data status label for a model estimate used while official data is unavailable. |
| Productivity-adjusted |
A cost weighed against output per worker (most efficient = 1.0×). |
| Rank |
A country's position from 1 (most competitive) to 33 (least) within the benchmarking set. |
| Reference dataset |
An absolute-value dataset provided alongside the 0–100 scores. |
| Score |
A 0–100 value summarizing competitiveness; 50 = global mean. |
| Tier band |
A third of the ranking: Upper (1–11), Mid (12–22), Lower (23–33). |
| Transaction price |
A filtered trade-based price reflecting a mid-market level. |
| Unit value |
A raw trade aggregate: total value divided by total quantity. |
