actions being to boost the manufacturing sector. In this paper, we estimate the effect of the tariffs -- including retaliatory … tariffs by U.S. trading partners -- on manufacturing employment, output, and producer prices. A key feature of our analysis is … accounting for the multiple ways that tariffs might affect the manufacturing sector, including providing protection for domestic …

This paper examines the role of international trade, and specifically imports from low-wage countries, in determining …

Over the past twenty years, imports to the U.S. from low-wage countries have increased dramatically. In this paper we …

in product scope. A 10 percentage point increase in exposure to Chinese imports leads to a 3.8 percent increase in …

exports to the euro area countries relative to the rest of the trading partners of Ireland has been positive, significant and …

that in German manufacturing industries the profitability of a firm increases when the number of markets a firm exports to … or imports from increases. The extra costs associated with being active on more foreign markets tend to be smaller than …

We use data on Chinese manufacturing firms to study the connection between individual firm imports and firm export … outcomes. Since our panel covers the years 2002 to 2006, we can use changes in import tariffs associated with China’s WTO entry … as instruments. Our regression results show that firms that expanded their intermediate input imports expanded the volume …

activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from … advantages of trading firms are eaten up by extra costs related to selling and buying on foreign markets. -- exports ; imports …