suggests that eliminating these subsidies would result in a welfare gain for China comparable to that of halving its trade …

This paper investigates empirically the role of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) as determinants of migration … the average effects of PTAs on migration flows and on trade, I show that PTAs stimulate bilateral migration flows more … than trade in final goods. PTAs might be used by government to increase inflows of immigrant workers in the case of labour …

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 … it the country notifying the second largest number of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) to the WTO after the United …