trade policy - particularly the tariffs placed on imports from China - on importers, consumers, and exporters. We start by … documenting that the tariffs were almost fully passed through to total prices paid by importers, suggesting the tariffs' incidence … several large multi-national retailers, we demonstrate that the impact of the tariffs on retail prices is more mixed. Some …

In this paper we demonstrate the importance of distinguishing capital goods tariffs from other tariffs. Using exposure … reduction in intermediate and consumption input or output tariffs do not significantly increase their investment rates. However …, firms' investment rate increase strongly in response to a reduction in capital goods input tariffs. Firms do not substitute …

This paper empirically investigates the impact of tariffs when production is organized in global value chains. Using … tariffs at different stages of the production chain for a broad set of countries and industries. Our results suggest that … tariffs have significant effects on economic outcomes, including on countries and sectors not directly targeted. We find that …

Economic theory suggests that countries’ tariff commitments in trade agreements reflect their import market power at …-Uruguay Round applied tariffs and relying on the theoretical framework of the terms-of-trade motive for trade agreements, we … average largest for China. In the past, the GATT/WTO system has updated tariff commitments through periodic rounds of …

We analyze the impact on productivity in advanced economies of fast-growing trade with China between the mid-1990s and … late-2000s, separately identifying the export and import channels. We use country-sector-level data for 18 advanced … economies and, similar to Autor, Dorn, and Hanson (2013), exploit exogenous variation in trade with China in a given country …

are shown to import less and export more agricultural products than expected given other economic, political, and …

This paper estimates the impact of China's exchange rate changes on exports of competitor countries in third markets … between China and its developing country competitors in specific products and destinations plays a key role. We exploit the … that a 10 percent appreciation of China's real exchange rate boosts on average a developing country's exports of a typical …

China's increasing integration with the global economy has contributed to sustained growth in international trade. Its … China's imports from all regions--especially Asia, where China plays an increasingly central role in regional specialization …. Tariff reforms have been implemented in China since the 1980s; and, with its recent WTO accession, China has committed itself …

connected over the last 20 years. China has emerged not only as a top trading partner, but also as an important competitor of … LAC exports. China's retreat from certain markets, due to the ongoing rebalancing process, could open new opportunities … for LAC exporters but also entail some challenges. Our results show that China's rebalancing will have an overall positive …