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This paper provides an economic analysis of the trade conflict between the US and China, providing an overview of the … conflict, based both on empirics (ex post analysis) and on simulations (ex ante analysis). Bilateral tariffs have increased on … average to 17% between the US and China, and the Phase One Agreement signed in January 2020 between the two countries only …
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affected. One possible outcome of Brexit is a situation where WTO tariffs apply to merchandise trade between the UK and the EU … falling by 5% (Finland) to 43% (Bulgaria) taking into account the new tariffs and the elasticity of the trade response to this …
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and China on exports of China and US respectively, so far. We use a CARD trade war tariffs dataset, UNCTAD TRAINS dataset …In this paper, as a unique attempt so far in the literature, we study empirically the effect of tariffs imposed by US … for tariffs data before trade war along with trade data from US Census. Using fixed effect panel data model, we find that …
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While China experienced a dramatic drop in trade with the U.S due to the outbreak of the trade war in the mid-2018, the … level spanning from January 2016 to December 2020 to show trade diversion effects from US imports from China to Vietnam …. Regression results show us the negative effect of the trade war on US imports for all targeted products from China while the US …
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This paper studies the role of reduced barriers to international trade from two dimensions: (i) the implementation of Free Trade Agreements and (ii) declining "border effects". Our empirical estimates suggest that diminished border effects accounts for the bulk of the increase in international...
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International trade in manufacturing goods has risen strongly over the past decades, contributing to the expansion of global value chains (GVCs). This paper studies how two factors contributed to this rise since 1970: (i) declining "border effects" that are arguably related to the ICT revolution...
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The period from January 2018 to September 2019 saw an unprecedented increase in tariffs placed on U.S. imports …, especially on those originating in China. We document the extent to which tariff exclusions and other factors lowered the average … also indicates that U.S. effective tariffs on Chinese goods increased notably at the start of 2021 …
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The WTO's plurilateral Information Technology Agreement (ITA) reduced tariffs to zero on many IT products. This paper … time in trade literatures. Inserting tariffs directly into the gravity equation breaks the ITAs impact down into four … layers. Import demand elasticities are found to be non-linear: Tariff reduction (layer 1) has relatively small impacts, while …
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This dissertation was prepared by Alexander-Nikolai Sandkamp, completed in September 2018 and first published online by LMU Munich in February 2019. It consists of four selfcontained chapters that empirically investigate different trade dampening phenomena using gravity analysis. The first two...
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economies within global production networks, attempt to impose punitive tariffs on China is bound to face formidable opposition …This paper examines China's evolving role in global production networks and its implications for assessing the … structural phenomenon driven by the pivotal role played by China within East Asia cantered production networks. The global …
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