Chinese government in international negotiations. Thus, at least in the trade sphere, the rise of China as a consumer market …

, calibrate it to the year 2000 using the World Input-Output Database, and perform a counterfactual analysis of China’s WTO … accession. We find that China's WTO entry accounts for about 45% of the decrease in China's value added exports to exports ratio … results imply that China's WTO accession was the driving force behind the strengthening of production networks with its …

Second World War and of China during more recent decades as being the result of selective protection and industrial targeting …

In the past few decades China has put substantial efforts into liberalising its trade and economy that accelerated … after its accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in December 2001. In this period China has significantly reduced … its tariffs on manufacturing imports. However, the proliferation of non-tariff measures (NTMs) imposed by China has made …