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