Logistics input intensity, trade facilitation and comparative advantage

Author(s):  
Lei Yang ◽  
Qianli Dong ◽  
Ziqiang Tong ◽  
Qiuling Wang ◽  
Jiani Wu
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwan Hermawan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis tingkat daya saing ekspor rempah Indonesia di pasar ASEAN dan tingkat intensitas persaingan ekspor rempah dari negara-negara ASEAN. Metode analisis yang digunakan adalah Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA), Intra-Industry Trade (IIT), Index of Export Overlap (IEO), dan Index of Export Similarity (IES). Sedangkan data yang digunakan adalah data tahunan periode tahun 2005-2013. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa daya saing rempah Indonesia di pasar ASEAN mengalami perubahan antar periode pengamatan. Pada periode sebelum dan saat krisis ekonomi banyak komoditas rempah Indonesia berdaya saing rendah. Sedangkan pada saat pasca krisis ekonomi kondisi daya saing rempah tersebut mengalami peningkatan, khususnya vanili, kayu manis, jahe, kunyit, safron, timi, daun salam, daun kari, dan lada. Apabila dilihat dari sisi persaingan komoditas rempah negara-negara ASEAN di pasar Indonesia maka intensitasnya cenderung menurun. Lada dari Filipina, vanili dari Thailand, dan cengkeh dari Malaysia dapat menjadi kompetitor yang potensial di pasar rempah Indonesia karena daya saingnya meningkat di saat negara-negara lain menurun. Pemerintah Indonesia dapat melakukan upaya-upaya untuk mempertahankan dan meningkatkan potensi daya saing rempah melalui (a) teknik budidaya yang baik, (b) pengembangan industri hilir, (c) pemanfaatan bursa komoditas, dan (e) perbaikan fasilitasi perdagangan. The study aims at analyzing the level of export competitiveness of Indonesian spices and the intensity level of spices export competitiveness among ASEAN countries. This study used Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA), Intra-Industry Trade (IIT), Index of Export Overlap (IEO), and Index of Export Similarity (IES) approaches. The data used were time series during 2005-2013. The results showed that in the period before and during economic crises, most of Indonesian spice commodities are considered in the low level of competitiveness. However, that level has improved after the Indonesian economic crises, particularly for some spice commodities such as: vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, saffron, turmeric, thyme, bay leaves, and curry. Seen from the ASEAN countries’ spice commodities in Indonesian market, the level of competitiveness tends to decline in the intensity. Philippines pepper, Thai vanilla, and Malaysian clove may become the potential competitors in Indonesian market showing that those countries have increased the level of competitiveness whereas other ASEAN countries have decreased. Indonesian government should maintain and stimulate the potential spice competitiveness through: (a) an application of good cultivation technique, (b) a development of downstream industry, (c) a utilization of commodity exchange, and (e) an improvement of trade facilitation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-32
Author(s):  
Siti Mardiah

Fasilitasi perdagangan telah menjadi perhatian berbagai negara dan berperan penting dalam efisiensi perdagangan. Manufaktur adalah salah satu produk eskpor yang memiliki peran penting bagi perekonomian Indonesia. Namun nilai ekspor manufaktur Indonesia ke RCEP selama periode 2012-2016 mengalami penurunan. Penelitian ini bertujuan menganalisis sektor unggulan manufaktur Indonesia dan menganalisis dampak fasilitasi perdagangan terhadap ekspor manufaktur unggulan Indonesia ke RCEP. Data yang digunakan adalah data sekunder periode 2012-2016 dengan metode analisis Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA), Export Product Dynamic (EPD) dan gavity model. Hasil analisis menunjukkan ekspor manufaktur unggulan Indonesia ke RCEP adalah kayu, barang dari kayu dan anyaman. PDB RCEP, Populasi RCEP, Burden of Customs Procedures (BOCP) RCEP, e-business RCEP dan dummy contiguity memiliki pengaruh positif dan signifikan, sedangkan jarak, nilai tukar dan Service Sector Infrastructure (SSI) RCEP berpengaruh negatif dan signifikan terhadap ekspor kayu, barang dari kayu dan anyaman Indonesia.   Trade facilitation has come to concern of various countries and has an important role in efficiency of trade. Manufacturing is one of the export products that has a very important role for Indonesian economy. However, the Indonesia's manufacturing export value to RCEP during the 2012-2016 period has decreased. This research was aimed to identify the Indonesia’s main manufacturing to RCEP and to analyze the influence of trade facilitation on Indonesia's main manufacturing export to RCEP market. The research used secondary data between 2012 and 2016. The methods used are the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA), Export Product Dynamic (EPD) and gravity model. The results showed that Indonesia’s main manufacturing exports are wood, goods from wood and webbing. GDP, population, Burden of Customs (BOCP), e-business and dummy contiguity have a positive and significant effect on Indonesian exports. Meanwhile, distance, exchange rate and Service Sector Infrastructure (SSI) RCEP has a negative and significant effect on wood, goods from wood and webbing exports.


In this paper, primarily the export specialisation pattern of Vietnam has been examined from the perspective of domestic value added exports. In addition, an effort has been made to identify presence of exaggeration in gross exports measures of industries level competitiveness. Empirical findings suggest that the export specialisation of Vietnam has reversed, and there is presence of exaggeration in the estimates of comparative advantage of ‘human capital and technology intensive’ industries that has also caused in ballooning up their shares in gross exports. Such pattern has arisen because intra-industry trade has become increasingly significant in Vietnam. Received 11th March 2019; Revised 17th October 2019, Accepted 20th October 2019


2015 ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
Anh Tu Thuy ◽  
Ngoc Le Minh

This paper makes use of two trade indicators, Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) and Regional Orientation (RO), to evaluate the economic impacts of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (The) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on Vietnamese commodities at the Harmonized System (HS) 2-digit level. Several sectors in which Vietnam has revealed a comparative advantage, has benefited from the AFTA, and would continue to enjoy trade creation from the RCEP, are: Cereals (10), Salt, sulphur, earth, stone, plaster, lime and cement (25), Rubber (40), Knitted or crocheted fabric (60), etc. More importantly, the result provides a list of commodities in which Vietnam has a comparative advantage and only experiences trade creation when participating in the RCEP. These are: Milling products, malt, starches, inulin, wheat gluten (11), Vegetable plaiting materials, vegetable products not elsewhere specified (14), Wood and articles of wood, wood charcoal (44), etc. Findings also show commodities in which Vietnam has a comparative advantage; but are not well positioned in the RCEP market yet, e.g. Cereal, flour, starch, milk preparations and products (19) and Manmade staple fibres (55). If sufficient investment decisions and marketing strategies are applied to these commodities, they will well penetrate the RCEP market and bring trade creation and welfare improvement to Vietnam. Public and private investment should consider the above-mentioned commodities as targets to leapfrog the benefits of RCEP.


Author(s):  
T. R. Lakshmanan ◽  
Uma Subramanian ◽  
William P. Anderson ◽  
Frannie A. Leautier
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