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Economic globalisation causes increasing international fragmentation of value added chains, whereby companies outsource components of production to foreign markets. These conditions have changed the way of manufacturing organization and the method of measuring international trade. The aim of this paper is the conceptualization of terms such as dematerialisation, deindustrialisation, delocalisation and reindustrialisation of industrial production as well as the global value chain. Followed by analysis of participation of selected economies in global value chains.(original abstract)