Amiti, Mary; Dai, Mi; Feenstra, Robert C.; Romalis, John - 2017
(PNTR) to China, effectively removing the threat of China facing very high tariffs on its exports to the United States. A … increased its imported inputs, boosting Chinese firms' productivity and their export values and varieties. Lower input tariffs … also reduced Chinese export prices to the U.S. market. In contrast, PNTR had no effect on Chinese productivity or export …