With China's 2001 WTO accession, trade costs between the US and China fell sharply, but the transport costs of Chinese … competing imports occurred near the ports where they arrived. Once accounting for domestic transport costs, import competition …. Using a shift-share design for industry-level Chinese imports across 42 ports of entry, we show that US job losses from …

such competitive pressure. Specifically, by instrumenting Chinese import penetration with China's share in other low- and … perform better in response to import competition. Our results indicate that rising Chinese import exposure -- not only direct …Using firm-level tax administrative data from 2010 to 2017, we study the impact of Chinese import penetration on the …

respond to manufacturing job loss caused by import competition from China. Although foreign-born population headcounts fell by … market adjustment in this episode was small. Because most U.S. immigrants arrived in the country after manufacturing regions … were already mature, few took jobs in industries that later saw import surges. The foreign-born population share in regions …