This book is a synthesis of the results and implications from a series of product-specific import and export process … the time and cost, of trade procedures involved in moving goods from factory floor in an exporting country all the way to … warehouses in an importing country. The regional study complement the more macro-level and cross-country trade facilitation …

China has achieved great success in its economic development since it has conducted economy-wide reforms and opened … largest in FDI inflow, the third largest in foreign trade, the fourth largest in GDP, and an important engine for the global … the two largest markets. East Asia accounts for half of Chinas foreign trade and more than 70% of FDI inflow. Chinas trade …

There is an emerging consensus among American politicians and many citizens that trade and globalization have … granted China “permanent normal trade relations” (PNTR) and China's 2001 entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) as key …-able increase in Chinese imports supposedly produced the loss of approximately 2.4 million U.S. jobs.However, the view that PNTR was …

We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate … its effects, describe its economic effects, and analyze if this increase in trade protectionism reverted the effects of …

. This is shown by the IW monitoring of industry-related 8-digit product groups in foreign trade statistics with high and … therefore potentially critical import dependencies, defined as imports with a share from China of at least 50 per cent. …

Do firms in developing countries shift trade towards developed economies as a result of high economic growth? The … analysis reveals a rising low-income country trade share around and after China’s accession to the World Trade Organization …. Based on this stylized fact, we analyze the link between firm characteristics and trade with low-income countries. We find …

How does import protection affect export performance? In trade models with scale economies, import liberalization can … export growth following the permanent normalization of trade relations with China (PNTR). But there was also an offsetting … reduce industry-level exports by cutting domestic production. We show that this export destruction mechanism reduced US …

economies from rising Chinese imports. In this paper, I estimate the causal effect of trade protection on imports and employment …The recent backlash against free trade is partially motivated by the decline in manufacturing employment due to rising … import competition from China. Previous studies about the “China syndrome” neglect the role of trade policy. This is …