Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74902 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
LICOS Discussion Paper No. 205
Publisher: 
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, Leuven
Abstract: 
In this paper we argue that export data are an inadequate tool to measure a country's international competitiveness when external trade is dominated by export-processing trade. Export data do not necessarily reflect the value produced in an exporting country, but rather capture the gross value of the products that leave a country's ports. We demonstrate that, in the case of China, this leads to an upward bias in both the perceived quantitative and qualitative threats to the Western economies.
Subjects: 
China
export-processing trade
technological intensity
trade balance
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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