Chinese Trade Reforms, Market Access and Foreign Competition : The Patterns of French Exporters

A unilateral trade reform generates two opposite effects: market access expansion and strengthening of competitive pressures in the liberalized market. Using detailed trade and firm-level data from France, we investigate how French firms' product scope and export sales changed after Chinese lib...

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Main Authors:	Bas, Maria, Bombarda, Pamela
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2014
Subjects:	competitive pressures export patterns export performance exporters exports foreign competition import tariffs market access tariff reductions terms of trade trade costs trade integration trade liberalization process trade openness trade policy trade reform trade reforms unilateral liberalization unilateral trade unilateral trade liberalization
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spelling	okr-10986-190872021-04-23T14:03:51Z Chinese Trade Reforms, Market Access and Foreign Competition : The Patterns of French Exporters Bas, Maria Bombarda, Pamela competitive pressures export patterns export performance exporters exports foreign competition import tariffs market access tariff reductions terms of trade trade costs trade integration trade liberalization process trade openness trade policy trade reform trade reforms unilateral liberalization unilateral trade unilateral trade liberalization A unilateral trade reform generates two opposite effects: market access expansion and strengthening of competitive pressures in the liberalized market. Using detailed trade and firm-level data from France, we investigate how French firms' product scope and export sales changed after Chinese liberalization vis-à-vis Asian liberalization. Our findings suggest that lower Chinese import tariffs account on average for 7 percent of the new products exported by French firms, and for 18 percent of additional French export sales. These results are robust when accounting for foreign competition faced by French firms in the liberalized market. 2014-07-30T21:29:19Z 2014-07-30T21:29:19Z 2013-01 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X 10.1093/wber/lhs016 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19087 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article China France
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description	A unilateral trade reform generates two opposite effects: market access expansion and strengthening of competitive pressures in the liberalized market. Using detailed trade and firm-level data from France, we investigate how French firms' product scope and export sales changed after Chinese liberalization vis-à-vis Asian liberalization. Our findings suggest that lower Chinese import tariffs account on average for 7 percent of the new products exported by French firms, and for 18 percent of additional French export sales. These results are robust when accounting for foreign competition faced by French firms in the liberalized market.
format	Journal Article
author	Bas, Maria Bombarda, Pamela
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title	Chinese Trade Reforms, Market Access and Foreign Competition : The Patterns of French Exporters
title_short	Chinese Trade Reforms, Market Access and Foreign Competition : The Patterns of French Exporters
title_full	Chinese Trade Reforms, Market Access and Foreign Competition : The Patterns of French Exporters
title_fullStr	Chinese Trade Reforms, Market Access and Foreign Competition : The Patterns of French Exporters
title_full_unstemmed	Chinese Trade Reforms, Market Access and Foreign Competition : The Patterns of French Exporters
title_sort	chinese trade reforms, market access and foreign competition : the patterns of french exporters
publisher	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2014
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19087
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Chinese Trade Reforms, Market Access and Foreign Competition : The Patterns of French Exporters

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