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Trade Policy and Global Sourcing : An Efficiency Rationale for Tariff Escalation
Antràs, Pol; Fort, Teresa C.; Gutierrez, Agustin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Import tariffs tend to be higher for final goods than for inputs, a phenomenon commonly referred to as tariff …-maximizing tariffs are uniform across sectors. We show that tariff escalation can be rationalized on efficiency grounds in the presence … up the chain for final-good tariffs, input tariffs may drive final-good producers to relocate abroad, mitigating their …
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Paving the Way for Unfair Competition : The Imposition of EU Anti-Dumping Duties on Ceramic Tiles from China
Kasteng, Jonas - 2012
The report identifies concerns with the EU anti-dumping instrument, as applied today, regardless of the fact that the investigation procedures and methods might be in line with the current regulation and practice. The report's arguments are based on the recent anti-dumping investigation – and...
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The role of overseas Chinese-speaking regions in global sourcing
Lo, Chu-Ping; Wu, Shih-Jye; Hsu, Su-Ying - In: China Economic Review 30 (2014) C, pp. 133-142
Why do many of the world's most productive firms prefer global outsourcing to FDI? To address this issue, this paper introduces an intermediate-good producer to Antràs and Helpman's (2004) North–South model, where the Northern firms can employ the producer via an outsourcing contract and have...
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Endogenous FDI spillovers from Japan to Russia and China with spillover-prevention costs
Matsubara, Kiyoshi - 2014
This paper explores the role of FDI-spillover prevention costs in the strategic choice for a MNE of a developed country such as Japan about whether it perform FDI to an emerging economy such as Russia and China and about a degree of FDI spillovers that it allows. After discussing the exogenous...
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It worked in China, so why not in Africa? : the political economy challenge of special economic zones
Farole, Thomas; Moberg, Lotta - 2014
African countries have sought to replicate the success of East Asia by implementing special economic zones. Despite decades of international experience, there remains no blueprint for successful special economic zone policies, and the majority of special economic zones fall well below...
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China and India : a tale of two trade integration approaches
Kowalski, Przemyslaw (contributor) - 2008
way in reducing its tariffs on non-agricultural products as well as selected non-tariff barriers but moderate protection …
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An Investigation into China's Export-Share Policy for Foreign-Invested Firms
Shelley, Andrew - 2016
This thesis analyses China's export-share policy; a policy that requires foreign-invested firms to export a certain minimum share of their production. The initial discussion focuses on the development of China's foreign investment and foreign exchange control policies since the commencement of...
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Fighting Trade War with FDI Policy Reforms
Zheng, Huanhuan - 2020
China accelerated FDI policy reforms since the presidency of Donald Trump. We evaluate how multinational enterprises (MNEs) respond to such reforms amid rising trade policy uncertainty. Applying difference-in-differences approach on monthly bilateral FDI from 2015 to 2019, we find that reforms...
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The Effects of the Global Pandemic on China’s One Belt, One Road Outward Foreign Direct Investment in the Association Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Region
Foo, Nam; Lean, Hooi Hooi; Salim, Ruhul - 2021
This article explores the potential economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis on China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI), especially that involving Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the Belt-Road countries. It also aims to understand the attitude of relevant stakeholders toward...
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From Strangers to Partners in the Hemisphere : New Prospects in Australia’s Economic Relations with Latin America
Kenyon, Don; van der Eng, Pierre - 2012
From marginal relevance, the trade and business relations between Australia and Latin America have grown during the past two decades. A proximate reason is that they diversified to encompass a greater range of manufactures and services. Differences in the business environments of Australia and...
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