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our theoretical results to China's 2001 WTO accession, we find that China's tariff reductions exceeded reciprocity norms …, increasing real incomes but amplifying the manufacturing employment dislocation - the China Shock - in the United States and …
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We find that Republican candidates lost support in the 2018 congressional election in counties more exposed to trade retaliation, but saw no commensurate electoral gains from US tariff protection. The electoral losses were driven by retaliatory tariffs on agricultural products, and were only...
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The US-China trade war forced a reluctant semiconductor industry into someone else’s fight, a very different position …. It uses that lens to explain how, during the modern conflict with China, US policymakers turned to a legally complex set …
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The Bagwell and Staiger (1990) theory of cooperative trade agreements predicts new tariffs (i) increase with imports, (ii) increase with the inverse of the sum of the import demand and export supply elasticities, and (iii) decrease with the variance of imports. We find US import policy during...
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The Bagwell and Staiger (1990) theory of cooperative trade agreements predicts new tariffs (i) increase with imports, (ii) increase with the inverse of the sum of the import demand and export supply elasticities, and (iii) decrease with the variance of imports. We find US import policy during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009634210
The Trump administration changed US trade policy toward China in ways that will take years for researchers to sort out …, and scale of the products subject to the tariff changes affecting US-China trade from January 20, 2017 through January 20 … why China fell more than 40 percent short of meeting the goods purchase commitments set out for 2020, the first year of …
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The bilateral relationship with China has become a major focus of U.S. trade policy. This paper examines recent U ….S. policy toward imports from China, highlighting important explicitly and implicitly discriminatory elements. Discriminatory … restrictions on U.S. trade with China protect competing domestic industries as well as non-Chinese foreign suppliers with an …
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The US-China trade war forced a reluctant semiconductor industry into someone else’s fight, a very different position …. It uses that lens to explain how, during the modern conflict with China, US policymakers turned to a legally complex set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249316
First Japan, and more recently the People's Republic of China, have pursued exportoriented growth strategies. While … other Asian countries have done likewise, the cases of Japan and the People's Republic of China are of particular interest …
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The Bagwell and Staiger (1990) theory of cooperative trade agreements predicts new tariffs (i) increase with imports, (ii) increase with the inverse of the sum of the import demand and export supply elasticities, and (iii) decrease with the variance of imports. We find US import policy during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633557