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

Bas, Maria ; Bombarda, Pamela

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ACCESS TO FOREIGN MARKETS;    APPLIED TARIFF;    AVERAGE TARIFF;    BASE YEAR;    BENCHMARK;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-6330
RP-ID  :  WPS6330

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 twoopposite effects: market access expansion and strengtheningof competitive pressures in the liberalized market. Usingdetailed trade and firm-level data from France, the authorsinvestigate how French firms' product scope and exportsales changed after Chinese liberalization vis-a-vis Asianliberalization. The findings suggest that lower Chineseimport tariffs account on average for 7 percent of the newproducts exported by French firms, and for 18 percent ofadditional French export sales. These results are robustwhen accounting for foreign competition faced by Frenchfirms in the liberalized market.