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...