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Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while paying zero or preferential tariffs as long as Rules of Origin (ROOs) are met. Meeting them is costly not only in terms of production costs but also in terms of documentation costs....
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Abstract We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing...
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increase in French exports to the new members. While workers benefitted overall, those competing most directly with imports … exports to a destination break down into more firms selling there and more buyers per exporter. We develop a quantitative …
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We introduce quality differentiation and an extensive margin of products into a standard quantitative, general equilibrium model of international trade. Both the quality and the quantity of a product play a role in its contribution both to consumption and to production. The framework allows...
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exports and imports, and the implications of this choice for exchange rate pass-through into prices and quantities. We derive …, small non-importing firms tend to price their exports in euros (producer currency) and exhibit complete exchange-rate pass …-through into destination prices at all horizons. In contrast, large import-intensive firms tend to denominate their exports in …
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census of China's exports. Intermediaries account for around 20% of China's exports in 2005. This implies that many firms …
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about firm heterogeneity in trade. First, the bulk of exports and imports are captured by a few multi-product firms that … transact with a large number of countries. Second, the average importer imports more products than the average exporter exports … the growth in Chinese exports between 2003-2005 was driven by deepening and broadening of trade relationships by surviving …
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This paper: outlines an algorithm for concording U.S. ten-digit Harmonized System export and import codes over time; describes the concordances we construct for 1989 to 2004; and provides Stata code that can be used to construct similar concordances for arbitrary beginning and ending years from 1989...
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U.S. trade statistics to provide a broad overview of how the margins of trade contribute to variation in U.S. imports … and exports across trading partners, types of trade (i.e., arm's-length versus related-party) and both short and long time …
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