China’s rapid rise as a leading global exporter of manufacturing goods since its accession to the WTO in 2001 has been … the focus of both admiration and, increasingly, concern, but China is also a large importer of goods, particularly … agricultural products. Since China's accession to the WTO, China agricultural exports have increased by 8 percent annually while …

, calibrate it to the year 2000 using the World Input-Output Database, and perform a counterfactual analysis of China’s WTO … accession. We find that China's WTO entry accounts for about 45% of the decrease in China's value added exports to exports ratio … results imply that China's WTO accession was the driving force behind the strengthening of production networks with its …

-sector gravity model with inter-sectoral linkages. We calibrate the model and perform a counterfactual analysis of China's WTO …-12% of the decrease in the world DVA ratio as observed between 2000-2007. For China, the counterfactual experiment robustly … replicates the increase in the DVA ratio, driven by the export-processing zones. Furthermore, our results imply that China's WTO …