Importing is an important method to connect the domestic market with international market. By importing energy resources to replace parts of domestic production, a country’s energy pressure has been alleviated to a certain extent, but does importing really improve a country’s energy...

As an important kind of export mode, processing trade has significant differences relative to other export modes. Do processing-trade firms emit less pollutants? Does processing trade transformation affect firms' pollution emissions? Based on the Melitz's (2003) framework, we construct a...