Factory Asia Meets Factory North America: How Far Does Latin America Get Involved in Machinery Production Networks?

Mitsuyo Ando, Fukunari Kimura and Kenta Yamanouchi

Chinese Economy, 2024, vol. 57, issue 4, 246-275

Abstract: International production networks in machinery industry have formed three large clusters, each of which is in East Asia, North America, and Europe. This paper investigates the recent evolvement of the connection between Factory Asia and Factory North America with highlighting the role of Latin American countries as a mediator. For this purpose, we utilized trade matrices and gravity equations to measure each country’s level of commitment to each bilateral machinery trade after controlling the size of the economies, distance, and others. Our major findings are threefold: first, Mexico is the only Latin American country that plays a connecting role between two Factories. Second, in 2010–2019, the linkage of exports to Mexico from not only China but also other East Asian countries is strengthened particularly in machinery parts and components. Third, export linkage of China with Mexico is further intensified in 2019–2021 particularly in machinery parts and components due to the US-China confrontation, the USMCA, and other factors.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/10971475.2024.2350123

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