Shifting from the EU’s production networks? Electronics industry exports of Central and Eastern Europe

ABSTRACT

This article presents the CEE countries’ connections to production networks in electronics industry. The goal of this paper is to analyse the changes in CEE states’ dependence on Chinese electronics industry exports. We verify a hypothesis: in electronics industry exports, the analysed countries have become more dependent on Chinese value added than on the EU’s value added recently.

KEYWORDS:

• Production networks
• CEE
• China
• electronics

JEL CLASSIFICATION:

• C10
• F10
• O10

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes

¹ It is a platform aimed at intensifying and expanding cooperation with 11 CEE and 5 Balkan sates (Pavlicevic 2018).

² Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.

³ Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Romania.

⁴ In 2015, 60% of total electronics exports of CEE were directed to the EU15, but 13.8% of the EU15 electronics exports went to CEE (UNCTAD 2019).

⁵ The largest dependence on China has been seen in the car industry (Cieślik 2019a).

⁶ Hungary is the good example of these fluctuations (Cieślik 2019b).

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Narodowe Centrum Nauki [UMO-2016/23/D/HS4/02748].