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ABSTRACT A newly developed 2010 East Asian multi-regional input–output table was used to examine intra-electronics industry relationships. The analysis suggests that Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and the southern and eastern coastal regions of China are the five most important players, and that the most prominent interregional flows of value added are those from the last two to the first three regions. Taiwan plays a critical coordinating role in East Asian electronics production. Inside mainland China, the southern coastal region plays a dominant role in promoting electronics industry development in other regions. Although most of China’s inland regions are not well articulated into the East Asian electronics production network, the south-western region is highly integrated into southern coastal region electronics production.