Exports serve as an engine of economic growth and can potentially help countries come out of poverty and unemployment …. However, as the production process is increasingly getting fragmented globally, greater exports no longer imply higher … domestic production, as imports of intermediate products used as inputs in exports also increase. Global Value Chains (GVCs …

This paper uses an augmented gravity trade model to examine the impact of Chinese exports to the United States on Latin … America and the Caribbean (LAC) exports to the same market over the last two decades. The analysis relies on a sample of 33 … the impact of Chinese exports on US imports from LAC is negative and statistically significant across model specifications …