Studi Luca d'Agliano).This paper uses detailed product-level export data for China and proposes an extension of the Antràs …-processing in China, pure-assembly and import-and-assembly. We find that if Chinese plants import materials and assemble them, the … plants engage in pure-assembly, under which regime ownership over the materials shipped to China remains with the foreign …

Using detailed product-level export data for China and a variant of the Antràs and Helpman (2004) model that includes … outsourcing in export processing trade. We exploit the coexistence of two regulatory export processing regimes in China, which …