This introductory chapter presents the research questions that were explored in the study and describes the structure of the book.

The objective of this chapter is to identify several key aspects related to the incidence of IPNs in East Asia and the Pacific, and their relationship to trade policies connected with discriminatory or preferential trade agreements resulting from the growing number of regional trade agreements...

This chapter presents the results of five country case studies that explore linkages between IPNs and RTAs in three different sectors. The case studies focus on sectors in which IPNs are prevalent in the selected countries. The studies on China, India and Indonesia focus on the automotive...

This chapter contains the sectoral case study on the Indonesia's automotive industry. The objective of this chapter is to examine the role of RTAs in the establishment of IPNs in Indonesia’s automotive sector. The first part of this chapter addresses the profile of the local automotive sector,...

This publication brings together the main research outputs delivered under a common theme "Regional trade agreements and international production networks" of the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT) research programme, Phase II (2008-2010). The study was divided into...