Supply-Chain Trade: A Portrait of Global Patterns and Several Testable Hypotheses

64 Pages Posted: 16 Apr 2013

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Richard Baldwin

Graduate Institute, Geneva; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Javier Lopez-Gonzalez

University of Sussex; OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate

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Date Written: April 2013

Abstract

The trade linked to international production networks – supply-chain trade for short – is associated with momentous global economic changes. This paper presents a portrait of the global pattern of supply-chain trade and how it has evolved since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources but most heavily on the recent World Input-Output Database. China's supply-chain trade receives special attention.

Keywords: China trade, fragmentation, intermediate goods trade, offshoring, second unbundling, supply-chain trade

JEL Classification: C67, F15, F23

Suggested Citation

Baldwin, Richard and Lopez Gonzalez, Javier, Supply-Chain Trade: A Portrait of Global Patterns and Several Testable Hypotheses (April 2013). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9421, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2251702

Richard Baldwin

Graduate Institute, Geneva ( email )

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) ( email )

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Javier Lopez Gonzalez

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