Caragliu, Andrea; Gerritse, Michiel - 2022
With China's 2001 WTO accession, trade costs between the US and China fell sharply, but the transport costs of Chinese …. Using a shift-share design for industry-level Chinese imports across 42 ports of entry, we show that US job losses from … competing imports occurred near the ports where they arrived. Once accounting for domestic transport costs, import competition …