Publication Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
6-2019
Abstract
The CPTPP, or the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, is an example of a “mega-regional” free trade agreement, whose provisions on the rules of origin and trade facilitation can have potentially large impacts on the CPTPP-wide supply chains. In this paper, we investigate whether the CPTPP members are key upstream and downstream trade partners to each other in the global value chains. We develop formulas of bilateral upstreamness and downstreamness, based on the gross-export decomposition framework of Koopman, Wang and Wei (2014) and Borin and Mancini (2017). We demonstrate how the decomposition of gross exports can be used to construct informative measures of the position of countries in global value chains.
Keywords
Global value chain (GVC), Gross export decomposition, Upstream/downstream trade partners, GVC position, CPTPP
Discipline
International Economics | Operations and Supply Chain Management
Research Areas
International Economics
First Page
1
Last Page
44
Publisher
Singapore Management University
City or Country
Singapore
Embargo Period
6-20-2019
Citation
CHANG, Pao-Li and NGUYEN, Tran Bao Phuong.
Global value chains and the CPTPP. (2019). 1-44.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_working_paper/1
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