The paper offers a novel explanation for China’s manufacturing exports performance after WTO entry. Building on … changes to multilateral export performance. The empirical analysis exploits the removal of US tariff uncertainty in … conjunction with China’s WTO accession, and examines its effect on China’s exports to the EU. The results reveal that: (i) the …

production sharing since that time. The assessment in this paper, based on export data and simulation results on the ex ante … accession-related effects on export volumes in the literature, finds that the accession must have increased China's real export … difference between the pre- and post-accession export growth rates in the four years before and after accession. This is because …