China-ASEAN export rivalry in the US market

Jan Piaw, Thomas VOON; Yue REN

doi:10.1080/1354786032000074721

China-ASEAN export rivalry in the US market

Jan Piaw, Thomas VOON
, Yue REN

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Abstract

In this paper, the degree of export rivalry or competition among China and ASEAN-4 (Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia) is examined using the shift-share methodology. Our results show that overall China was more competitive than ASEAN-4 in its exports to the US. China was more competitive in manufacturing exports whereas ASEAN-4 fared better in agricultural or primary exports. China's advantages in export growth and industry structure vis-à-vis ASEAN-4 were less pronounced before, than after, the onset of the Asian financial crisis, implying that the crisis has indeed affected ASEAN-4 more than China. It has been contended that China's advantage in manufacturing exports could have been accentuated by Hong Kong' production in South China, which has been counted in US trade statistics as China's exports to the US. After disentangling Hong Kong's production in China, the degree of rivalry between China and ASEAN-4 is significantly reduced. Our analysis points to the role of sub-regional production synergy in boosting a country''s export competitiveness.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	157-179
Number of pages	23
Journal	Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy
Volume	8
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1354786032000074721
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2003

Bibliographical note

We are grateful to Wilson Lee and Garry Wong for data collection and computation of the results. We must also thank two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments.

Funding

The work described in this paper was fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. LC3012/98H).

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

Keywords

Asean\-4
China
Competitiveness
Crisis
Shift\-share
Synergy

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