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La croissance des exportations chinoises et la protection contre la Chine : menaces au système mondial de commerce ?
Author(s) -
Bown Chad P.,
Crowley Meredith A.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
canadian journal of economics/revue canadienne d'économique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1540-5982
pISSN - 0008-4085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2010.01617.x
Subject(s) - china , accession , safeguard , international trade , international economics , chinese market , product (mathematics) , world trade , business , economics , european union , geography , geometry , mathematics , archaeology
Is there evidence from China's pre‐WTO accession period that newly imposed U.S. or EU import restrictions deflect Chinese exports to third markets? We examine this question by drawing on a newly constructed data set of U.S. and EU product‐level import restrictions on Chinese trade imposed between 1992 and 2001, and we estimate their impact on Chinese exports to alternative markets. We find no systematic evidence that the import restrictions imposed during this period resulted in Chinese exports surging to third markets. To the contrary, there is weak evidence of a chilling effect on China's exports to third markets.