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Not AvailableThe export performance and competitiveness of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) have been studied in this paper. Revealed comparative advantage (RCA) and Revealed symmetric comparative advantage (RSCA) have been worked out for safflower seed and safflower oil for India, Mexico and United States of America (USA) for the period 1992-2009. The results have indicated that India has fluctuating trends in its competitiveness in the export of safflower seed while it has no competitive advantage in the export of safflower oil except in the year 1997. It is also observed that USA has very strong comparative advantage for the export of safflower oil as well as safflower seed export while Mexico has weak comparative advantage for export of safflower seed and strong comparative advantage for export of safflower oil. The study also revealed that support prices do not have high impact on increasing or decreasing in safflower production in India.Not Availabl