This paper studies the trade of China in the past 150 years, starting from the first opening of China after the Opium … War. The main purpose of the paper is to identify what is (and was) China’s ‘normal’ level of foreign trade, and how these … levels changed under different trade regimes, from 1840 to the present. We present new evidence on China’s foreign trade …

China is different from both other low-wage and OECD countries. Industry-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing … to China reduce firm employment growth and induce skill upgrading. In contrast, industry-level imports have no effect on … Belgian firm survival, while firm-level outsourcing of finished goods to China even increased firm's probability of survival …

-specific quotas following China’s entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …

Import competition from China is pervasive in the sense that for many good categories, the competitive environment that …

We assess the impact of U.S. trade policy uncertainty (TPU) toward China in a tractable general equilibrium framework … turn reduces trade flows and real income for consumers. We apply the model to analyze China's export boom around its WTO …

China’s policy-makers argued that WTO accession and the accompanying trade liberalization would have a beneficial … impact on the domestic economy. China’s import tariffs differed tremendously across industry in the earlier years, but …

share of each country’s exports going to China from 2000 to 2010. China’s growing share of world spending is found to be the … protectionism by China contributed too. …

This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in …