This dataset reveals how the value of a country’s gross exports of intermediate and final products is an accumulation of value generated by many industries in many countries. Data show the origin of value added in gross exports, by source country and source industry.

The paper investigates the possibility of constructing a new measurement for analysing international fragmentation of the production process. It asserts that the current usage of relevant data, whether the trade shares of parts and components or the index of Vertical Specialisation, is quite...