When Vietnam entered WTO in 2007 it was granted an accession period up to 2014. During this period tariffs would have … Vietnam has many state-owned enterprises that do not behave in a profit maximizing way. The model simulations show that the … of income will take place among the poor rural households in Vietnam. We propose other tariff reforms that both raise …

domestic firms in a low-income host country. The US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on exports from … Vietnam. Tariff reductions led to entry of foreign and private firms and to employment expansion in formal manufacturing, with …

declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … the number of firms engaged in China-U.S. trade. These results are robust to other potential explanations of the …

Chinese exports to the U.S. in the years surrounding China's 2001 WTO accession. Following predictions based on a model of …

, calibrate it to the year 2000 using the World Input-Output Database, and perform a counterfactual analysis of China’s WTO … accession. We find that China's WTO entry accounts for about 45% of the decrease in China's value added exports to exports ratio … results imply that China's WTO accession was the driving force behind the strengthening of production networks with its …

affected by disputes with China, and is different from the diffusion behaviours of the offshore US dollar, euro, British pound …