10.15208/beh.2017.18
https://zenodo.org/records/1292099
oai:zenodo.org:1292099
Esquivias Padilla, Miguel Angel
Miguel Angel
Esquivias Padilla
Faculty of Economics and Business, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia
Sari, Dyah Wulan
Dyah Wulan
Sari
Faculty of Economics and Business, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia
Handoyo, Rossanto Dwi
Rossanto Dwi
Handoyo
Faculty of Economics and Business, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia
Formation of production networks in ASEAN: Measuring the real value-added and identifying the role of ASEAN countries in the world supply chains
Zenodo
2017
Key words: Vertical specialization, AFTA, production networks, value-added trade, global input-output
2017-10-19
https://academicpublishingplatforms.com/volume.php?journal=BEH&id=3&number=26
https://zenodo.org/communities/pradec
https://zenodo.org/communities/beh
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
This study addresses the two-fold question of whether the integration-liberalization process of ASEAN is headed towards the creation of a single production base region, and how ASEAN links with other trade blocks. It looks into the degree of intra-ASEAN and extra-ASEAN vertical integration vis-à-vis North America, East Asia, and the European Union through the measurement of value-added creation-absorption in global value chains (GVC) and by locating ASEAN within vertical structures. The study employs an international input-output database and breaks up gross exports into different components of value-added using data from 1997, 2004, and 2012. ASEAN has made significant gains in integrating with East Asia. However, ASEAN as a single production region has gained little, and even lost share in value-added trade with NAFTA and Europe. The truth is that ASEAN has a stronger role across the GVC as a supplier of intermediate goods (33%) than as a supplier of final goods (30%). Vertical structures represent more than 43% of ASEAN gross exports, but it still depends on foreign parts and components (35%) to produce its exports. It may be argued that ASEAN 6, which entails a wider scope of integration, might offer larger benefits to the ASEAN project.