Machinery Trade in East Asia and Global Financial Crisis. Mitsuyo Ando * Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University

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1 Machinery Trade in East Asia and Global Financial Crisis Mitsuyo Ando * Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University Abstract The global financial crisis since the fall 2008 has influenced the world economy including East Asia. This paper sheds light on international production/distribution networks mainly observed in machinery sectors in East Asia and attempts to examine patterns of machinery trade movements under the crisis to explore how and to what extent it affects trade. More specifically, the paper analyzes those trade patterns, with a distinction between machinery intermediate goods and machinery final products, with a distinction among trading partners (regions) to investigate whether there are any differences in reactions between machinery final products and parts and component, between intra-regional trade and inter-regional trade, and among machinery sectors. Moreover, to consider possible seasonality in trade, the paper also attempts to apply the X-12 model and discusses features of trade patterns based on not only actual trade values but also estimated trade values with seasonal adjustment. Our results demonstrate that the effects of financial crisis on the international/production networks in East Asia do exist, but at the same time, East Asia s trade has rapidly recovered within the regional production/distribution networks. In particular, East Asia itself is the major contributor to such a rapid recovery not only for machinery parts and components trade but also for machinery final goods trade. It suggests that the existence of dense production/distribution networks in East Asia help industries stable, not footloose. It also suggests that East Asia is increasingly gaining the importance not only as the production site but also as the consumption site for final products that are produced in the production/distribution networks in the region and how to activate and expand intra-regional demand is essential. * Corresponding author: Mitsuyo Ando, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University. Address: Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo , Japan. Tel: m-ando at fbc.keio.ac.jp.

2 Machinery trade in East Asia and global financial crisis * Mitsuyo Ando (Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University, Japan) 1. Introduction The formation of international production/distribution networks in East Asia, with extensive promotion of foreign direct investment (FDI), is an important phenomenon. The major industries are machinery sectors including general machinery, electric machinery, transport equipment, and precision machinery. Although international production/distribution networks have been formed in other regions in the world as well, the production/distribution networks in East Asia observed mainly in machinery industries in East Asia are distinctive in (i) their significance in the regional economy, (ii) their geographical extensiveness involving many countries at different income levels, and (iii) their sophistication in both intra-firm and arm s length (inter-firm) relationships (Ando and Kimura, 2005); first, production networks have already become a substantial component of each country s economy in the Asian region. No longer can each country s manufacturing activities and international trade be discussed without considering the existence of production networks. Second, production networks involve a large number of countries with various income levels in the region, in contrast to networks between specific countries or between a developed country and a developing country in geographical proximity such as ones in the US-Mexico nexus/western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe nexus. Third, production networks effectively utilize intra-firm and arm s transactions among different firm nationalities including multinational enterprises (MNEs) as well as indigenous firms in each country. The global financial crisis since the fall 2008 has significantly influenced the production networks with above-mentioned features. This paper sheds light on machinery sectors that are major ones for the production networks in East Asia and attempts to examine patterns of trade movements in the pre- and post-crisis period to explore how and to what extent it affects trade. More specifically, the paper attempts to uncover the features of reactions of production/distribution networks in East Asia under the global financial crisis, focusing on differences in intermediate goods and final goods, differences between intra-regional and inter-regional transactions, and differences among machinery sectors. The rest of the paper is organized as follows: next section discusses features of international production/distribution networks from the perspective of machinery * The paper was prepared, based on research for JETRO project and ERIA project. 2

3 trade, and Section 3 analyzes patterns of machinery trade movements during the crisis. Section 4 discusses some policy implications. 2. International production/distribution networks in East Asia and machinery trade Machinery trade comprises a significant portion of East Asian trade. Figure 1 presents the share of machinery goods in total exports to and imports from the world in the early 1990s and in 2007, with a distinction between machinery final products and parts and components, for each East Asian country. 1 Compared the shares in the early 1990s with those in 2007, machinery trade s share, in particular machinery parts and components share has rapidly increased. It suggests how explosively back-and-forth transactions of machinery intermediate goods have expanded during the last decade or so. == Figure 1== Similar analysis for major countries in the world (Figure 1 presents only East Asian countries) indicates that machinery trade s share, in particular machinery parts and components trade s share tend to grow for countries not only in East Asia but also in other regions. When the figure plots countries from highest to lowest export share of machinery parts and components in order to address the relative significance of machinery intermediate goods trade, however, most countries with highest shares of machinery parts and components exports are developed countries in the early 1990s, who are replaced by East Asian countries in In other words, the significance of machinery trade, mainly machinery intermediate trade for each economy has absolutely and relatively increased in East Asia. In addition, the ratios of machinery intermediate goods trade are high for both exports and imports in East Asia, which implies the existence of export-oriented operations as well as active and drastically expanding vertical back-and-forth transactions. On the other hand, for instance, most Latin 1 Unless specified otherwise, machinery industries in this chapter basically include general machinery, electric machinery, transport equipment, and precision machinery. HS (Harmonized System) The definitions of machinery parts and components are slightly revised ones for the HS2002 classification and the HS2007 classification, based on the definition proposed by Ando and Kimura (2005). The reason for using the two versions of definition is that monthly trade data available from World Trade Atlas utilizes the HS2007 classification January 2007 for China, Thailand, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Japan from, April 2008 for Malaysia, January 2009 for Indonesia, and February 2009 for Taiwan. Trade in machinery goods other than trade in machinery parts and components is regarded as trade in machinery final products. 3

4 American countries except Mexico, who develops active production sharing with the United States, present low shares of machinery intermediate exports. While they have a certain amount of machinery parts imports, their machinery parts shares for exports are close to zero, suggesting the existence of import-substituting operations in these countries. A large portion of the above-mentioned machinery parts and components trade in East Asia is intra-regional. When intra-regional export/import shares in 2000 are compared with those in 2007 (because data for all ten East Asian countries including China, ASEAN4, NIEs4, and Japan are available for these two years), one can observe a rapid expansion of intra-regional machinery parts and components shares (except the case of Chinese machinery intermediates exports), reaching 55 percent - 73 percent for exports and 63 percent - 82 percent for imports. Considering that intra-regional trade values of machinery parts and components per se have significantly expanded (from US$525.7 billions to billions for exports and from US$418billions to billions for imports) including Chinese parts exports (from US$38.2 billions to billions), these facts demonstrate how explosively and rapidly vertical back-and-forth transactions of machinery parts and components proliferated throughout the region. == Table 1== The rapid expansion of back-and-forth transactions of machinery parts and components trade within East Asia reflects the development of fragmentation of production. The fragmentation of production is to fragment production processes that are originally located in one place into two or more production blocks and locate them at appropriate places for each production block. When production blocks are fragmented, costs of service links connecting production blocks occur while one can enjoy the cost reduction at each production block utilizing location advantage. In particular, when production blocks are located beyond the national border, service link costs include not only costs coming from the geographical distance such as transport costs, telecommunication costs, and coordination costs but also costs across borders (typically trade barriers). Fragmentation occurs when the service link costs are sufficiently low so as to make the total costs (i.e., production costs plus the service link costs) lower than otherwise. Therefore, the key for fragmentation (or an expansion of back-and-forth transactions of machinery parts and components) is reduction of these services link costs. In East Asia in the 1990s, as Ando (2006) emphasizes, 4

5 vertical transactions, particularly vertical back-and-forth transactions of parts and components in vertically fragmented production processes across borders, rather than the trade of quality-differentiated commodities that is supported by the theoretical model of intra-industry trade with vertical product differentiation, were drastically expanded in East Asia. Table 1 also demonstrates another important evidence; the East Asian market is improving its significance as the market of final products. On the import side, both intra-regional ratio and trade values (from US$253.7 billions to billions) have risen during seven years in the 2000s. In particular, intra-regional ratios for ASEAN4 and NIEs4 reach close to 70 percent. On the export side, intra-regional trade values increase from US$446.2 billions to billions, and 20 percent to less than 40 percent of final goods exports go to East Asia (though intra-regional shares slightly drop in some cases). In East Asia, intra-regional demand has expanded according to the economic development. For East Asian countries, in particular for ASEAN4 and NIEs4, East Asia is increasingly gaining the importance not only as the production site but also as the consumption site for final products that are produced in the production/distribution networks in the region. 3. East Asia s machinery trade under the global financial crisis The global financial crisis starting in fall 2008 has significantly affected machinery trade in East Asia with the above-mentioned international production/distribution networks. This section analyzes patterns of machinery trade movement under the global economic recession, employing monthly trade data available from World Trade Atlas. Figure 2 (a) displays trend of machinery trade (exports (1) and imports (2)) from January 2000 to July (September) 2009, with a distinction between machinery intermediate goods and machinery final products as well as with a distinction among trading partners (regions). In order to examine whether there are any differences in reactions between intra-regional trade and inter-regional trade, this paper focuses on East Asia (China, ASEAN4, NIEs4, and Japan), US, and EU15 in addition to the World as trading partners. Moreover, besides analysis for machinery sectors as a whole, we conduct same analysis for electric machinery sector and transport equipment sector; Figure 2 (b) and Figure 2 (c) display patterns of trade movement for these sectors, respectively. Furthermore, as will be discussed, there seem to exist seasonality in trade. In order to consider such seasonality, this paper attempts to estimate trade values with seasonal adjustment by applying the X-12 model and discuss the features of trade patterns based on not only actual trade values but also estimated trade values with seasonal adjustment. 5

6 == Figure 2 == Apparently, machinery trade has significantly moved since fall 2008; while both exports and imports drastically declined with a peak in September or October 2008, they started to rapidly recover with a bottom around January to February As the trend of trade during the last eight years suggests, seasonality seems to exist, and trade tends to drop in February. The drop in January or February 2009, however, could not be fully explained by the normal seasonality. Focusing on differences in reactions of machinery parts and components trade and final goods trade clearly demonstrates that, except cases of exports for China and Japan in Figure 2 (a), parts and components trade with the world beyond final goods trade before the crisis, and the former vividly displays a V-shape, which is deeper than the latter does. Moreover, a large portion of such trade with the world is composed of intra-east Asian trade. It would partly reflect a sort of magnification effect of intermediate goods trade, emphasized by Yi (2003). When parts and components are traded across borders several times among fragmented production blocks through the process of fragmentation of production, multi-countable intermediate goods trade could expand total trade values. In other word, once parts and components trade starts to shrink, total trade could significantly decline. Due to active trade of parts and components within the region through the regional production networks and emergence of magnification effect, the V-shape of trade would be deeper for parts and components than final products. How significantly did machinery trade drop and to what extent did it recover? Who are the major contributors to those changes? The timing of the peak and the bottom of trade around the crisis are slightly different among economies. In addition, the timing seems to be different between intermediate goods and final products in some cases; in the case of machinery imports for ASEAN4 and NIEs4, for instance, the timing of recovery for final products trade is lagged behind the timing for parts and components. In order to capture an overall picture, however, this paper consistently regards September 2008 as the peak, February 2009 (five month later) as the bottom, and July 2009 (additional five month later) as the recovery (on the way of recovering), and calculates (nominal) trade indices (trade values in September 2008=100) (Table 2) (We call trade at the peak, bottom, and recovery peak trade, bottom trade, and recovery trade, hereafter.) Note that trade indices for September 2009, one year later from the peak, are also calculated for China and Japan as the data is available. == Table 2 == 6

7 To uncover the major contributors to drop and recovery in trade, this paper calculates contribution ratios of trading partner (regions) to changes in exports to/imports from the world. Table 3 displays contribution ratios of each region in the drop period (five months from September 2008 to February 2009) and in the recovery period (five months February 2009 to July 2009). Table 3 also presents trade shares of each region in total trade with the world for one year just before the crisis (from October 2007 to September 2008). Therefore, contribution ratios significantly larger (smaller) than trade shares of a certain region imply that the corresponding region more significantly contributes to changes in trade with the world than other regions. ==Table 3 == These tables provide several interesting insights. First, for both exports and imports, while machinery final goods trade shrinks down to the level of 60 percent to 70 percent of the peak trade during the five to six months, and machinery parts and components trade reached as low as the level of 50 percent to 60 percent of the peak trade, both types of trade recover to the level of 80 percent to 90 percent within one year, except the cases of machinery final goods exports for ASEAN4 and Japan. For instance, trade indices for parts and components (final goods) at the bottom in China, ASEAN4, NIEs4, and Japan are 50 (56), 60 (61), 60 (73), and 55 (50) for exports and 57 (64), 56 (73), 63 (67), and 53 (71) for imports. These figures confirms the fact that machinery parts and components trade shrink to the level of close the half, and a drop in trade values in general is greater for parts and components than finished products. Second, a large part of trade change (increase and decrease) is induced by East Asia, and in addition, the recover in intra-regional trade at a higher pace than other regions contributes to the drastic recovery in East Asia s total trade, and on the export side, trade moved back almost to the peak trade. The large contribution ratio of East Asia is of course partly due to East Asia s ratio to the world particularly for parts and components trade, but it is apparently different from the case of machinery final goods trade. Moreover, once they start to recover, regardless of whether exports and imports, contribution ratios of East Asia are greater than trade shares of East Asia. Therefore, the recovery in intermediate goods trade within the region at such a relatively high speed realizes a drastic recovery as a whole. On the export side, trade indices of East 2 Negative contribution ratios in the drop period and in the recovery period imply an increase in trade and a decrease in trade, respectively. In the case of underlined contribution ratios for transport equipment sector, total trade increases in the dropping period or decreases in the recovery period. 7

8 Asia for the recovery trade are higher than those for the World, which amounts to over 90 percent of the peak trade. In other world, machinery intermediate goods trade move back at the almost same level before the crisis. Third, although intra-regional exports of final goods slightly decrease, the degree of drop is relatively small, and they recover to the level of around 90 percent of the peak trade within one year from the occurrence of crisis. Trade shares of East Asia are much smaller for final goods than those for intermediate goods, but contribution ratios of East Asia to a drop in machinery final goods exports are smaller than trade shares of East Asia except the case of ASEAN4. Moreover, contribution ratios of East Asia in the recovering period are almost same or even higher than trade shares of East Asia. It suggests that intra-regional final goods exports indeed decreased to some extent but by not a significant amount. Trade indices of East Asia (intra-regional exports) for the recovery trade are higher than those of the world (East Asia total exports to the world); around 80 percent of the peak trade for ASEAN4, and over 90 percent for China, NIES4, and Japan. In the case of imports, contribution ratios of East Asia are smaller than trade shares in some cases, but trade for ASEAN4 and NIEs4 is over 80 percent of trade at the peak, and trade for China and Japan move back to as high as 96 percent and 97 percent of the peak trade in September 2009, respectively. Fourth, the recovery in trade with the US and Europe is lagged behind to the recovery in intra-regional trade for machinery parts and components and final goods, and, and the recovery in trade with Europe in particularly is significantly delayed for machinery final goods exports compared with intra-regional trade. Note that portions of US and Europe in final goods trade for East Asia are much smaller than those generally thought. In the case of intermediate goods, the shares of US and Europe in trade with the world are around 10 percent for both exports and imports, probably reflecting magnification effects of parts trade within East Asia. The corresponding shares of US and Europe for machinery final goods are higher than those for intermediate goods, but they are around 20 percent in the case of exports for instance; shares of US and EU are 22 percent and 22 percent for China, 23 percent and 15 percent for ASEAN4, 17 percent and 17 percent for NIEs4, and 26 percent and 17 percent for Japan. They are much lower than generally though. Therefore, the US and Europe are indeed important markets products produced through the production networks in East Asia, but not necessarily depends on only these markets. Rather, the significance of East Asia as the market for final goods is increasing, and how to expand and activate intra-regional demand is essential for the production networks in East Asia in the future. Trade indices of the recovery trade for US and EU for are smaller than those for East Asia, indicating the delay in recovery. In the case of final goods, in particular, the delay of recovery in exports to US and Europe, particularly Europe, is dominant; 8

9 trade indices at the bottom for East Asia, US, and Europe are 60, 54, and 53 for China, 60, 58, and 58 for ASEAN4, 79, 67, and 66 for EU, and 64, 54, and 53 for Japan. Similarly, trade indices in the recovery period are also higher for East Asia than US and Europe, except the case of China. In particular, compared with high trade indices of East Asia in the case of NIEs4 and Japan (over 90 percent), those for US are around 70 percent to 80 percent and those for Europe are about 60 percent to 70 percent, suggesting the slow recovery in these regions. Contribution ratios in Table 3 also confirm such a delayed recover. While contribution ratios of EU and trade share of EU are more or less similar in the drop period, the former is much smaller than the latter in the recovery period; they are 15 and 22 for China, seven and 15 for ASEAN, four and 17 for NIEs, and 12 and 16 for Japan, implying how significantly the recover in exports of final goods to EU is lagged behind. So far, we have discussed features of machinery trade as a whole. In the following, let us focus on differences in electric machinery and transport equipment sectors. As Figure 2 (b) clearly shows, the deep V-shape is apparent in the electric machinery sector. The trade indices at the bottom for both parts and final goods are smaller in the electric machinery sector than in the machinery sector as a whole, suggesting that a drop in trade as a result of the financial crisis are larger than other machinery sectors. Contribution ratios in the recovery period demonstrate that though trade shares of East Asia in the recovery period are high for parts and components trade (61 percent of total exports and 87 percent of total imports for China, 66 percent and 71 percent for ASEAN4, 80 percent and 83 percent for NIEs4, and 70 percent and 77 percent for Japan), contribution ratios, 80 percent to 90 percent (60 percent only for exports of China), are much higher than trade shares. It clearly shows how significant the drop and recovery in parts and component trade within the region. On the other hand, the transport equipment sector shows a quite different picture from the electric machinery sector, and the trade in this sector fluctuates. For instance, trade values themselves are much smaller, and the effects of financial crisis per se may not be ambiguous (particularly intra-regional demand), which would be major reasons behind the differences. Even in the transport equipment sector, the V-shape can be observed for both exports and imports of machinery intermediate goods, but it is not apparent for those of final goods. Note that a large portion of ASEAN s transport equipment exports is hold by Thailand (Table 2 (c)). When we look at figures for Thailand and Japan, similarly to parts trade, final goods in the transport equipment sector or CBU (Complete Build Up) also present the V-shape. Indeed, many Japanese 3 The reasons why timing of recover for CBU is lagged behind that for parts (that is, the timing of the bottom of V-shape is later for CBU than for parts) would be that there exists time lags between production/purchases of parts and finishing assembling and 9

10 automobile assemblers invest in Thailand, and when we had an interview at the factory visiting, we heard that financial crisis significantly affected the transport equipment sector in Thailand. All of these factors suggest that while the financial crisis hit the transport equipment sector in Thailand and Japan who have significant amount of inter-regional exports of CBU, transport equipment trade decline only to some extent, reflecting Asian economy s slow show. In sum, by-sector features of machinery trade are as follows: first, electric machinery trade with high intra-regional shares significantly drops and rapidly recovers. Second, a recovery in trade, particularly in the electric machinery sector, is rapid, and a certain level of solid development of production/distribution networks would help industries stable (rather than foot-loose). Third, the crisis significantly hit economies of Thailand and Japan with a significant amount of exports of CBU to out of the region are significantly affected by the crisis. Fourth, transport equipment trade in other countries decline simply reflecting Asian economy s shrinkage as a whole, without significant effects. Note that significant trade drop and delayed trade recovery in Japan might be explained that Japanese firms may take the strategy to lower the weights of production within Japan in the production/distribution networks in East Asia. Figure A.1 and Table A.1 in the Appendix are based on the estimated trade values, which are obtained by employing X-12 model. It suggests that when we consider seasonality the magnitude of changes in trade in the drop and recovery period become smaller, and the above-mentioned effects, particularly to what extent trade drops and recovers would also be much smaller (I will revise this analysis in the next version since the crisis period is included in this estimation.) 4. Policy implications This paper has focused on machinery sectors, which are major sectors of international production/distribution networks in East Asia and analyzed the effects of global financial crisis from the perspective of international trade, with a distinction between machinery intermediate goods and machinery final products, with a distinction among trading partners (regions), and attempted to examine whether there are any differences in reactions between machinery final products and parts and component, between intra-regional trade and inter-regional trade, and among machinery sectors. Moreover, to consider such seasonality, the paper has attempted to estimate trade values with seasonal adjustment by applying the X-12 model and discuss features of trade patterns based on not only actual trade values but also estimated trade values with seasonal adjustment. completing manufacturing CBU. 10

11 As our results demonstrate, the effects of financial crisis do exist, but at the same time, East Asia s trade has rapidly recovered within the regional production/distribution networks. Such a surprising recovery suggests that the existence of dense industrial clusters and international production/distribution networks help industries stable, and they are strong toward external shock even if there may be short-term effects, and that it is meaningful for East Asian countries to be involved in the production networks. The author often heard the emphasis just after the occurrence of the crisis that it might have been better for countries that have already engaged in the networks not to have been involved (it would be better for countries that may engaged in the future not to enter). Indeed trade temporary drops significantly, but it starts to recover within a half year from the occurrence of the crisis. Rather, we should say that the existence of dense production/distribution networks in East Asia help industries stable, not footloose. From the viewpoint of strength of stability of production/distribution networks, the key would be whether the production/distribution networks are dense and solid one or not. Further improvement of trade and investment facilitation is required to make the networks more solid and more competitive. In addition, while US and Europe are still important destinations of exports from East Asia, but the importance of intra-regional market has risen and how to activate and expand intra-regional demand is essential. Table 4 summarizes the results of analysis of the investment climate in 2008 in East Asian countries other than Japan, using the survey compiled by the Japan Machinery Center for Trade and Investment (JMC), (JMC survey 2008 hereinafter); the number of indices (the problems and obstacles) faced by Japanese firms operating in corresponding countries according to ten categories. The ten categories are divided into two groups, one consisting of four categories of problems related to FDI liberalization and six categories of problems related to FDI facilitation. 4 Categories with the five highest indices are all facilitation measures except restrictions on foreign entry. Due to the nature of survey, the countries in which Japanese firms are more active in trade and investment or those to which Japanese firms pay considerable attention as new investment locations may tend to have a larger number of incidents since they are more likely to face various problems through their operations. However, this table clearly suggests that further efforts to reduce them by these countries are required. Although 4 This classification, which has been proposed by Urata, Ando, and Ito (2007), is based on literature survey and discussions among the members of the committee including representatives of APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Japan, the Japan Machinery Center for Trade and Investment (JMC), the Ministry of Trade, Investment, and Industry (METI) Japan, and university professors. 11

12 this table includes 13 countries (countries in East Asia in this paper other than Japan plus Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam (CLMV)), the shares of each category only for CLMV countries show that ratios of underdeveloped infrastructure, shortages of human resources, and insufficient investment incentives is much higher, compared with those for 13 countries, suggesting that how the development of infrastructure and so on is indispensable in these countries. == Table == Tariffs and non-tariff measures (NTMs) would be further reduced with various channels of trade liberalization such as AFTA and other bilateral and plurilateral/regional trade agreements. From the perspective of individual country in the region, operations that are preserved by imposing high tariffs at this moment would be difficult to remain in the future. Therefore, the future of a country would depends on whether it could form industrial cluster and have the industries established, which can be facilitated by the improvement of business environment including logistics. References Ando, Mitsuyo 2009 Survey on Issues to Improve Trade and Investment Liberalization and Facilitation in APEC Member Economies. Japan Machinery Center for Trade and Investment. In Japanese. Ando, Mitsuyo (2006) Fragmentation and Vertical Intra-industry Trade in East Asia. North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 17 (3): pp Ando, Mitsuyo, and Fukunari Kimura (2005) The formation of international production and distribution networks in East Asia. In T. Ito & A. Rose (Eds.), International trade (NBER-East Asia seminar on economics, volume 14), Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Japan Machinery Center for Trade and Investment (JMC) (2008) Issues and Requests for Trade and Investment Activities by Country/Region in Available from Urata, Shujiro, Mitsuyo Ando, and Kazuyori Ito (2007) Survey on Investment Liberalization and Facilitation Obstacles to FDI in the APEC Economies: A Study Based on the JMC Firm Survey (APEC#207-CT-01.10), available at 12

13 Table 1 Intra-regional share of machinery trade in East Asia China ASEAN4 NIEs4 Japan EX Parts East Asia US EU Final East Asia US EU IM Parts East Asia US EU Final East Asia US EU Data source: author's calculation, using trade data available from World Trade Altas. 13

14 Table 2 (a) East Asia s trade: machinery sectors

15 (continued) Data source: author s estimation, using trade data available from World Trade Atlas.

16 Table 2 (b) East Asia s trade: electric machinery sectors

17 (Continued) Data source: author s estimation, using trade data available from World Trade Atlas.

18 Table 2 (c) East Asia s trade: transport equipment sector

19 (Continuted) Data source: author s estimation, using trade data available from World Trade Atlas.

20 Thailand s trade: the transport equipment sector

21 Table 2 Trade index for machinery trade in East Asia =100) a) Machinery HS84-92) China ASEAN4 NIES4 Japan EX Parts World Parts East Asia Parts US Parts EU Final World Final East Asia Final US Final EU IM Parts World Parts East Asia Parts US Parts EU Final World Final East Asia Final US Final EU (b) Electronic machinery HS85) EX Parts World Parts East Asia Parts US Parts EU Final World Final East Asia Final US Final EU IM Parts World Parts East Asia Parts US Parts EU Final World Final East Asia Final US Final EU (c)transport equipment HS86-89) EX Parts World Parts East Asia Parts US Parts EU Final World Final East Asia Final US Final EU IM Parts World Parts East Asia Parts US Parts EU Final World Final East Asia Final US Final EU Data source: author's calculation, using trade data available from World Trade Altas. 15

22 Table 3 Contribution of each region to changes in machinery trade in East Asia a) Machinery HS84-92) Share in world trade ) China ASEAN4 NIEs4 Japan Drop ) Recover ) Contribution ratio Share in world trade ) Drop ) Recover ) Drop ) Recover ) Drop ) Recover ) EX Parts East Asia Parts US Parts EU Final East Asia Final US Final EU IM Parts East Asia Parts US Parts EU Final East Asia Final US Final EU (b) Electronic machinery HS85) EX Parts East Asia Parts US Parts EU Final East Asia Final US Final EU IM Parts East Asia Parts US Parts EU Final East Asia Final US Final EU (c)transport equipment HS86-89) EX Parts East Asia Parts US Parts EU Final East Asia Final US Final EU IM Parts East Asia Parts US Parts EU Final East Asia Final US Final EU Data source: author's calculation, using trade data available from World Trade Altas. Contribution ratio Share in world trade ) Contribution ratio Share in world trade ) Contribution ratio Note: Contribution ratios during the dropping period and recovering period express contribution ratios to the reduction in trade with the world during the period between September 2008 and February 2009 and constribution ratios to the increase in trade with the world during the period between February 2009 and July 2009, respectively. In the cases of underlined figures for the transport equipment, trade with the world increaed during the dropping period and decreased during the recovering period. 16

23 Table 4 Major impediments to trade and investment liberalization and facilitation in East Asia (2008) China Indonesia Philippines Malaysia Thailand Hong Kong Korea Taiwan Singapore Cambodia Laos Myanmar Vietnam Total Share (%) Share for CLMV(%) FDI liberalization Restrictions on foreign entry Performance requirements Restrictions on overseas remittances and controls on foreign currency transactions Restrictions on the movement of people and employment requirements FDI facilitation Lack of transparency in policies and regulations concerning investment (institutional problems) Complicated and/or delayed procedures with respect to investmentrelated regulations (implementation problems) Insufficient protection of intellectual property rights Labor regulations and related practices excessively favorable to workers Underdeveloped infrastructure, shortages of human resources, and insufficient investment incentives Restricted competition and price controls Data source: author's preparation based on Ando (2009). 17

24 Table A.1 (a) East Asia s trade with seasonally adjustment: machinery sectors

25 (continued) Data source: author s estimation, using trade data available from World Trade Atlas. Note: SAParts and SAFinal display the trend of trade with seasonal adjustment.

26 Table A.1 (b) East Asia s trade with seasonally adjustment: electric machinery sectors

27 (Continued) Data source: see Table A.1 (a). Note: see Table A.1 (a).

28 Table A.1 (c) East Asia s trade with seasonally adjustment: transport equipment machinery sectors

29 (Continued) Data source: see Table A.1 (a). Note: see Table A.1 (a).

30 Table A.1 Trade index for machinery trade in East Asia with seasonal adjustment =100) a) Machinery HS84-92) China ASEAN4 NIES4 Japan EX Parts World Parts East Asia Parts US Parts EU Final World Final East Asia Final US Final EU IM Parts World Parts East Asia Parts US Parts EU Final World Final East Asia Final US Final EU (b) Electronic machinery HS85) EX Parts World Parts East Asia Parts US Parts EU Final World Final East Asia Final US Final EU IM Parts World Parts East Asia Parts US Parts EU Final World Final East Asia Final US Final EU (c)transport equipment HS86-89) EX Parts World Parts East Asia Parts US Parts EU Final World Final East Asia Final US Final EU IM Parts World Parts East Asia Parts US Parts EU Final World Final East Asia Final US Final EU Data source: author's calculation and estimation, using trade data available from World Trade Altas. 19