Tariff Concessions in Production Sourcing

• Main Authors: GUO, Yunsong, LI, Yanzhi, LIM, Andrew, RODRIGUES, Brian
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: Production sourcing; Tariffs; Heuristics; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/585; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2007.03.004
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, we study a multi-stage production sourcing problem where tariff concessions can be exploited at the firm level using free trade agreements between countries. To solve the problem, an algorithm which embeds a very large-scale neighborhood (VSLN) search into a simulated annealing framew...