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

Bas, Maria ; Bombarda, Pamela

Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank

关键词: competitive pressures;    export patterns;    export performance;    exporters;    exports;   

DOI  :  10.1093/wber/lhs016

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

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.