The paper calculates the decline in costs involving merchandise trade between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and … India during the period 1980-2008. The gravity-based measure of bilateral trade costs indicates that declining trade costs … account for about three-quarters of the increase in PRC-India bilateral trade volume between 1990 and 2008. So far, PRC has …

Background: This paper measures the aggregate trade costs from 2000 to 2013, and dicusses the impact of China … paper takes China’s vertical specialization reality into account and establishes the panel data model which relates the … aggregate trade costs with the export shares. Results: We find that China’s aggregate trade costs are declining, but it is still …