A Not-So-Good Morning in Baltimore: What Does Its Port Closure Mean for ASEAN+3 Trade and Supply Chains?

Using the IMF-University of Oxford University PortWatch spillover simulator to analyze the impact of the Baltimore accident on ASEAN+3 trade, the note shows that immediate, direct repercussions for the ASEAN+3 region are small, as is the impact on its network of supply chains.

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How are ASEAN and China Leveraging Their Positions in Global Value Chains?

This note shows that an economy needs to retain more GVC stages to support the development of domestic firms and increase domestic value-added, and that it should move toward more upstream positions in GVCs to capture a larger share of value-added.

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Vietnam Trip Notes: The Next Global FDI and Supply Chain Hub?

This next issue in the Trade Wind Series presents the key takeaways from staff’s discussions in Vietnam, which is that the country has the potential to become a global FDI and supply chain hub if appropriate measures and structural reforms are undertaken.

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