established in 2001 but instead on the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements to identify tariff negotiating priorities. This … paper uses the lens of the terms-of-trade theory to investigate three specific areas in which it is frequently alleged that … tariff binding overhang. As it turns out, these three areas are almost exclusively found to be the trade policies that …

established in 2001 but instead on the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements to identify tariff negotiating priorities. This … paper uses the lens of the terms-of-trade theory to investigate three specific areas in which it is frequently alleged that … tariff binding overhang. As it turns out, these three areas are almost exclusively found to be the trade policies that …

We formalize the GATT/WTO principle of reciprocity in workhorse quantitative trade models, characterizing reciprocal … tariff cuts that hold terms of trade fixed and investigating their labor-market impacts. We provide closed-form expressions …

This paper focuses on the adjustment environment in the United States as set out by the active U.S. trade remedy laws … (antidumping, countervailing duties, and safeguards) and the Trade Adjustment Assistance program. We document U.S. industries' use … of these various laws and relate industry use of trade policies to import competition and revealed comparative advantage …

This paper focuses on the adjustment environment in the United States as set out by the active U.S. trade remedy laws … (antidumping, countervailing duties, and safeguards) and the Trade Adjustment Assistance program. We document U.S. industries' use … of these various laws and relate industry use of trade policies to import competition and revealed comparative advantage …

The Bagwell and Staiger (1990) theory of cooperative trade agreements predicts new tariffs (i) increase with imports …, (ii) increase with the inverse of the sum of the import demand and export supply elasticities, and (iii) decrease with the … variance of imports. We find US import policy during 1997-2006 to be consistent with this theory. A one standard deviation …

We find that Republican candidates lost support in the 2018 congressional election in counties more exposed to trade … health care as an election issue. A counterfactual calculation suggests that the trade war (respectively, health care) can …

The paper explores the trade competitiveness of seven major shrimp exporting countries, namely Vietnam, China, Thailand …

China's deepening engagement in the global trading system and the threat of its export capacity have affected the … negotiation, formation, and rules of international trade agreements. Among other changes, China's 2001 accession to the World … Trade Organization (WTO) introduced new allowances for existing members to deviate from core WTO principles of reciprocity …

first examine the trade destruction and trade diversion associated with Japanese exports to the US market resulting from US … effect of these US policies on Japanese exports to the EU. We document sizable trade deflection and trade depression in the … contemporaneous increase in exports. Finally, we present evidence that US ADDs impose terms-of-trade externalities on non …