outcomes. Since our panel covers the years 2002 to 2006, we can use changes in import tariffs associated with China’s WTO entry … of their exports and increased their export scope, though the magnitude of the effects differed by import source, firm …We use data on Chinese manufacturing firms to study the connection between individual firm imports and firm export …

engage in both processing and ordinary trade since ordinary import enjoys the free-duty treatment in China. The declining … costs, we find rich evidence that a reduction in input trade cost for large trading firms leads to an increase in export … higher export intensity (i.e., intensive margin). Such results are robust to different empirical specification and …