The statistical test results in Table 1 depict
that the mean and standard error are not
equal to zero for all countries and t-ratios are also statistically significant at 5 percent for
China, India, Pakistan and Vietnam. So, we accept alternative hypothesis. We accept null
hypothesis, as t-ratio is statistically not significant at 5 percent for Thailand. This means that revealed comparative and revealed competitive advantage do not yield similar results for all countries except Thailand. Thus, it is more appropriate to use competitive
advantage where results differ because competitive advantage also takes import
performance into account.