Fragmenting Globalization: The Politics of Preferential Trade Liberalization in China and the United States (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780472074709)

Global supply chain integration is not only a rapidly growing feature of international trade, it is responsible for fundamentally changing trade policy at international and domestic levels. Given that final goods are produced with both domestic and foreign suppliers, Ka Zeng and Xiaojun Li argue that global supply chain integration pits firms and industries that are more heavily dependent on foreign supply chains against those that are less dependent on intermediate goods for domestic production. Hence, businesses whose supply chain would be disrupted as a result of increased trade barriers should lobby for preferential trade liberalization to maintain access to those foreign markets. Moreover, businesses whose products are used in the production of goods in foreign countries should also support preferential trade liberalization to compete with suppliers from other parts of the world.

Fragmenting Globalization uses multiple methods, including time series, cross-sectional analysis of the pattern of Preferential Trade Alliance formation by existing World Trade Organization members, a firm-level survey, and case studies of the pattern of corporate support for regional trade liberalization in both China and the United States. Zeng and Li show that the growing fragmentation of global production, trade, and investment is altering trade policy away from the traditional divide between export-oriented and import-competing industries.

Author: Ka Zeng, Xiaojun Li
ISBN-10: 0472074709
ISBN-13: 9780472074709
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2021
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2022