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Trade Integration and Production Networks in Asia: The Role of China

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Sven W. Arndt () (Lowe Institute of Political Economy, Claremont McKenna College)

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This paper examines the implications of cross-border component sourcing and production networks for trade competitiveness and welfare. Offshore sourcing of components in which it has comparative disadvantage, enables a country to enhance its comparative advantage in the final product. This option provides emerging countries with an important alternative to capital accumulation and technical change as paths to economic development. In addition, production sharing changes the nature of trade-balance accounting and tends to reduce the sensitivity of trade flows to movements in exchange rates. This has important implications for trade policy and for the choice of exchange-rate regime. In the context of regional trade areas, for example, deeper integration allowing for production sharing has welfare effects superior to those of standard preferential trade liberalization.

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Paper provided by Lowe Institute of Political Economy in its series Working Papers with number 0403.

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Date of creation: 2004
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Keywords: cross-border sourcing; trade integration; production sharing; exchange rate elasticities;

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F11 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Neoclassical Models of Trade
F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
F32 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Current Account Adjustment; Short-term Capital Movements

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  1. Sven W. Arndt, 1997. "Globalization and the Open Economy," Working Papers 9701, Lowe Institute of Political Economy. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Deardorff, A.V., 1998. "Fragmentation in Simple Trade Models," Papers 98-11, Michigan - Center for Research on Economic & Social Theory.
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  3. Robert C. Feenstra, . "Integration Of Trade And Disintegration Of Production In The Global Economy," Department of Economics 98-06, California Davis - Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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