How the iPhone Widens the United States Trade Deficit with the People's Republic of China
How the iPhone Widens the United States Trade Deficit with the People's Republic of China
复制标题
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.1729085
复制
发表时间：
2010-12
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
Yuqing Xing;Neal Detert
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Yuqing Xing;Neal Detert
i»？在本文中，我们以iPhone为例来说明，即使是美国（US）公司发明的高科技产品，也不会增加美国的出口，反而加剧了美国的贸易逆差。iPhone为美国与中华人民共和国（PRC）的贸易逆差贡献了19亿美元。前所未有的全球化、组织良好的全球生产网络、跨国生产分散化的发展以及低廉的运输成本，都促使苹果等理性企业做出了直接导致美国贸易逆差的商业决策。全球生产网络和高度专业化的生产流程显然扭转了贸易模式：中国等发展中国家出口iPhone等高科技产品，而美国等工业化国家进口自己发明的高科技产品。此外，传统贸易统计大大夸大了被跨国公司用作出口平台的国家与其目的地国之间的双边贸易逆差。
i»?In this paper, we use the iPhone as a case to show that even high-tech products invented by United States (US) companies will not increase US exports, but on the contrary exacerbate the US trade deficit. The iPhone contributed US$1.9 billion to the US trade deficit with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Unprecedented globalization, well organized global production networks, repaid development of cross-country production fragmentation, and low transportation costs all contributed to rational firms such as Apple making business decisions that contributed directly to the US trade deficit. Global production networks and highly specialized production processes apparently reverse trade patterns : developing countries such as the PRC export high-tech goods—like the iPhone—while industrialized countries such as the US import the high-tech goods they themselves invented. In addition, conventional trade statistics greatly inflate bilateral trade deficits between a country used as export-platform by multinational firms and its destination countries.