Background: This paper measures the aggregate trade costs from 2000 to 2013, and dicusses the impact of China … paper takes China’s vertical specialization reality into account and establishes the panel data model which relates the … aggregate trade costs with the export shares. Results: We find that China’s aggregate trade costs are declining, but it is still …

This paper calculates the decline in costs involving merchandise trade between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and … India during the period 1980-2008. Drawing from the recent literature, a comprehensive measure of trade costs is derived … costs accounted for less than one third of the increase in trade between the PRC and India during the 1980s, lower costs …