Abstract
The notion that China is factory of the world is now changing. Factories in China are shifting their production base to neighboring Asia, primarily because of higher input costs in China, a volatile Chinese exchange rate, and protectionist measures targeted against Chinese exports. In this paper, we examine the location substitution effect for China: Chinese firms are exporting primary, intermediate and machinery items, meant for producing final output in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). Results suggest that GMS countries are exporting finished items to China, that are increasingly getting manufactured using primary and intermediate inputs imported from China.
Keywords
Citation
Banik, N. and Ch. Das, K. (2013), "Chinese Dragon venturing into GMS territory : Does it Makes Sense?", Journal of International Logistics and Trade, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 43-65. https://doi.org/10.24006/jilt.2013.11.1.43
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2013 Jungseok Research Institute of International Logistics and Trade
License
This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited