Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/189479 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 98-10
Publisher: 
University of California, Department of Economics, Davis, CA
Abstract: 
We study outsourcing from the United States under the offshore assembly program (OAP). Formerly called the 806/807 provision of the U.S. tariff code, and now renamed the 9802 provision of the Harmonized System code, this program allows U.S. firms to export component parts and have them assembled overseas. When the finished product is imported back into the United States, duties are paid only on the foreign value-added. We estimate the production characteristics of the U.S. OAP activity, and in particular, whether this activity is intensive in the use of non-production labor as compared to the overseas production. We also examine the sensitivity of OAP imports to real exchange rate movements.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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