“…In the present case, the objective is to understand the dynamic of Peru and its competitors in a major importing country (figure 1: United States, Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom) and grasp strategic changes in trade prices and volumes, with the construction of a Tradecan competitiveness matrix as developed by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (eclac) and already used in other studies (Dussel, 2001;Clemente, 2001;Toro and Ruiz, 2005;Matesanz and Sánchez Díez, 2005;Romo Murillo, 2007;Ponce, Contreras and Vásquez, 2007;Sánchez Díez and Villalobos Álvarez, 2010). To measure a country's competitiveness for a product, two variables are related,…”