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With the view that trade expansion allows export products structure advance and this leads to technology and economy growth, this study examines the relationship between technology improvement and growth according to a change in export products structure caused by trade. The relationship between technology ranking estimated using product ladder that represents the technology standard of export products and total factor productivity was analyzed first and then regression analysis on the relationship between an industry structure change caused by one country's trade structure and economy growth was performed. The result shows that total factor productivity increases as technology ranking evaluated by each country's product ladder becomes higher (as composition of product with high product ladder in each country's export products structure increases). This suggests that advancement in export products structure through trade increases total factor productivity in each country. The result can be interpreted that advancement in export products has a great effect on one country's technology growth and economy growth. This dissertation has its significance in giving each product its technology ranking using product ladder as an index when evaluating the advancement of export products structure.