Xing, Yuqing - In: Asian Economic Papers 13 (2014) 1, pp. 109-123
China, thus greatly inflating its exports. This paper adopted a value-added approach to more accurately measure high …-tech exports, revealing that, in 2009, China's value-added accounted for only about 3 percent of the total value attributed for its … exports of iPhones and laptop PCs. Furthermore, if assembly is the only source of value-added by Chinese workers, in terms of …