Many people have a vague notion that the room for expanding international production networks is almost exhausted and that therefore international trade has slowed down since the recovery from the great trade collapse. This paper presents evidence against such a belief in the East Asian context by classifying finely disaggregated trade data based on the stages of the production process. The trade slowdown was attributed mainly to sluggishness of trade in primary goods and processed raw materials. In contrast, East Asian trade in manufactured parts and components and the assembled end-products within production networks continued to expand steadily.

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生产网络在东亚过时了吗？还没有

很多人有一个模糊的概念，即国际生产网络的扩张空间几乎耗尽，因此自贸易大崩溃后复苏以来，国际贸易放缓。本文通过根据生产过程的各个阶段对细分的贸易数据进行分类，提出了反对东亚背景下这种信念的证据。贸易放缓主要是由于初级产品和加工原材料贸易不振。相比之下，东亚制造零部件和生产网络内组装的最终产品的贸易继续稳步增长。