It is increasingly hard to distinguish the true
nationality of various popular car makes. As the BBC piece Is it
time to stop thinking of cars in terms of nationality? notes:
“What makes a car
German, American or Japanese?
Is it where it is
designed, where the parts are manufactured, or where those parts are assembled?
Or is it where the brand owner is based?
The answer is more
complicated than you may think.”
Related -
An important paper on global supply chains:
Baldwin, Richard and Lopez-Gonzalez, Javier, (2013), Supply-Chain Trade: A
Portrait of Global Patterns and Several Testable Hypotheses, No 18957, NBER
Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
Abstract: The
trade linked to international production networks - supply-chain trade for
short - is associated with momentous global economic changes. This paper
presents a portrait of the global pattern of supply-chain trade and how it has
evolved since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources but most
heavily on the recent World Input-Output Database. China's supply-chain trade
receives special attention.