Over the past six years, the Sino-US trade war has not only reshaped the relationship between the world's two largest economies but also profoundly influenced the global economic and trade patterns. This paper reviews the background, process, and implications of the Sino-US trade war, examining...

Using disaggregated US household expenditure data, we study the distributional consequences of the US-China trade war. We estimate a highly flexible demand system to compute household-specific price indexes. The increases in US tariffs on Chinese products between 2018 and 2019 led to an average...

This study investigates whether US corporations' political influence shapes China's retaliatory actions during the US-China trade war. Our theoretical model predicts that foreign firms operating in more concentrated sectors tend to face lower trade barriers because they can leverage their market...

Trade protectionism has been on the rise and spreading all over the world. Using quarterly data on antidumping cases from 1997Q1 to 2020Q4, this paper examines the bilateral relationship between China and its major trading partners in imposing antidumping. First, a bivariate vector...