Trade Diversion and Production Sharing

Sven W. Arndt

Chapter 10 in Evolving Patterns in Global Trade and Finance, 2014, pp 123-136 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This paper examines the repercussions of cross-border production sharing for the welfare effects of preferential trade liberalization. In a general-equilibrium context, a free trade agreement (FTA), which incorporates production sharing, raises the likelihood of welfare improvement. Thus, two members of a free trade area, who each have comparative disadvantage in the production of a final product relative to a non-member, may nevertheless enjoy net trade creation if they jointly possess comparative advantage in key components of that product. At a minimum, cross border production sharing reduces the trade-diverting elements of an FTA. It follows, that rules of origin, viewed as constraints on cross-border fragmentation, augment the negative, trade-diverting elements of free trade areas.

Keywords: Preferential Trade Areas; Fragmentation; Cross-Border Production Networks; Off-Shoring; Currency Areas and Monetary Union; Single vs. Dual-Exchange Rate Regimes; Stabilization Policy in Open Economies; International Monetary Relations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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