Chen, Tuo; Hsieh, Chang-tai; Song, Zheng Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use Chinese customs data to show that unofficial non-tariff barriers were responsible for 50\% of the overall reduction in Chinese imports from the U.S. during the height of the U.S.-China trade war in 2018 and 2019. We infer non-tariff barriers from the change in imports of U.S. products...