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Anxiety or Pain? The Impact of Tariffs and Uncertainty on Chinese Firms in the Trade War
Benguria, Felipe; Choi, Jaerim; Swenson, Deborah; Xu, … - 2022
The unexpected outbreak of the U.S.-China trade war led to dramatic increases in the import and export tariffs confronting Chinese firms. Due to firm-level differences in trade engagement, customs trade data combined with tariff changes allow us to measure firm-level exposure to the trade war....
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Trade Wars and Trade Talks with Data
Ossa, Ralph - 2011
How large are optimal tariffs? What tariffs would prevail in a worldwide trade war? How costly would be a breakdown of international trade policy cooperation? And what is the scope for future multilateral trade negotiations? I address these and other questions using a unified framework which...
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Carwars : Trying to Make Sense of U.S.-Japan Trade Frictions in the Automobile and Automobile Parts Markets
Levinsohn, James A. - 2012
This paper tries to make sense of the recent trade dispute between the U.S. and Japan in autos and auto parts. The paper argues that there are structural differences between the way that the auto industries are organized in the U.S. and Japan, and that these differences have contributed to the...
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Trade Wars and Trade Talks
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2021
Whether governments clash in trade disputes or negotiate over trade agreements, their actions in the international arena reflect political conditions back home. Previous studies of cooperative and noncooperative trade relations have focused on governments that are immune from political pressures...
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Subsidy Agreements
Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2021
International disputes over subsidies are increasingly disrupting the world trading system. The creation of the WTO was nearly prevented by disputes in the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations over the issue of negotiating disciplines on agricultural subsidies, an issue which continues to plague...
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Learning by Ruling and Trade Disputes
Maggi, Giovanni - 2017
Over the WTO years, the frequency of disputes and court rulings has trended downwards. Such trends are sometimes interpreted as symptoms of a dispute resolution system in decline. In this paper we propose a theory that can explain these trends as a result of judicial learning; thus according to...
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China's WTO Entry : Antidumping, Safeguards, and Dispute Settlement
Bown, Chad P. - 2013
as part of its 2001 WTO accession. With respect to China's exports, we examine data on WTO members' use of antidumping … antidumping against China has become more discriminatory since its 2001 accession. Furthermore, evidence from a regression … respect to China's imports, we examine data on China's antidumping use - now the WTO's fifth most frequent user of antidumping …
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Contingent Protection as Better Insurance
Prusa, Thomas J.; Fischer, Ronald D. - 2021
We formalize the notion that GATT exceptions such as antidumping and escape clause actions can act as insurance for …
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Antidumping and Retaliation Threats
Blonigen, Bruce A.; Bown, Chad P. - 2021
This paper examines how the prospect of foreign retaliation affects the antidumping (AD) process in the United States … in the initial AD petition, and that the U.S. AD authority's antidumping decisions are influenced by the threat of …
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Are All Trade Protection Policies Created Equal? Empirical Evidence for Nonequivalent Market Power Effects of Tariffs and Quotas
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2010
evidence that antidumping protection increases market power …
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