The rise of offshoring of intermediate inputs raises important questions for commercial policy. Do the distinguishing … features of offshoring introduce novel reasons for trade policy intervention? Does offshoring create new problems of global … perform in a world where offshoring is prevalent? In this paper we provide answers to these questions, and thereby initiate …

This paper studies firm offshoring behaviour following the Canada-Peru Foreign Investment Protection Agreement (FIPA … microdata show that the change is not simply offshoring by individual firms. FDI into Peru was in mining as opposed to … manufacturing. Moreover, firms that increased their Peru investment did not reduce their Canadian employment, nor were they the same …