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Introduction Firstly, we have given a little background of France, in terms of its geographic, Demographic, political and economic characteristics and a brief History of France from its old age till the Modern times. Secondly, In order to find the absolute and comparative advantages of France, in terms of its international trade and economic prosperity, we have categorized the imports and exports of France into the following categories: Mineral products, Wood products, Metal  products, Stones and glass products, Paper goods, Agriculture products, Animal products, Food stuffs, Weapons, Footwear and headwear, Animal hides, Textiles, Transportations, Machineries, Arts and antiques, Precious metals, Chemical products, instruments, plastics and rubbers. We have kept the imports/exports data of the year 2013 and 2014 under observations and had a relative comparison of France’s imports and exports commodities of these three years. The relative comparison of which are listed in the appendix, in terms of monetary value,  percentage value of each categories and the overall imports and exports. Since, the imports and exports were in large numbers, thus we have taken the top 5 imports and e xports of each category, as mentioned in the above paragraph, to find out the absolute and comparative advantages of France. Furthermore, we have: revealed the best comparative advantage by applying porter’s diamond model; determined the destination countries, where commodities are exported, by selecting a single company with in the industry that has the best comparative advantage. And finally, we determined the mode expansion using Foreign Direct Investment model. Background Geographically: France, with an Area of 643,801 Sq. Km and locality of Western Europe, has boundaries of 2,751 km connected with the boarder countries as Andorra, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Spain and Switzerland; it also connects with the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel and Mediterranean Sea. The land covers 52.7% of Agriculture crops (arable land 33.4%, permanent crops 1.8% and permanent pasture of 17.5%), 29.2% of forest and 18.1% of others. The metropolitan France bears the reserves of Coal, Iron ore, bauxite, Zinc, uranium, antimony, arsenic, potash, feldspar, fluorspar, gypsum, timber, arable land and fish. Apart from the above mentioned metropolitan France, as mentioned above, it has several overseas boundaries and territories. Because of which France is the second largest exclusive economic zone in the world. Demographically: France, comprises a population of 67 Million with a variant age structure and growth rate of 0.43% (July 2015 est.); have an ethnic concentration of Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities and overseas (black, white, mulatto, East Indian, Chinese and Amerindian); while the official language of France is French with the intensity of 100%, with a quick declination of Provencal, Breton, Alsatian. Corsican,

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