From Final Goods to Inputs: The Protectionist Effect of Rules of Origin

Conconi, Paola; García-Santana, Manuel; Puccio, Laura; Venturini, Roberto

doi:10.1257/aer.20161151

Cited by 121 publications

(123 citation statements)

References 37 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

121

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The World Bank (WB), the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization (WTO) recently released a joint report (2017) warning against a turn of the global trade policy agenda. Indeed, in a context of erratic global trade developments, policy issues have returned to the spotlight, both in politics and academia (Feng et al 2017, Murina and Nicita 2017, Baccini et al 2018, Blanchard et al 2016, Conconi et al 2016, Haaland and Venables 2016, Baldwin 2011, Antras and Yeaple 2013, Vandenbussche and Zanardi 2010. Even as tariffs are at historically low levels, non-tariff measures (NTMs) play an important-and growing-role in global trade policy, exemplified by the burgeoning interest of international governmental and non-governmental bodies (i.a., Cadot and Malouche 2012, UN 2013, GTA 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chinese Exports and Non-Tariff Measures: Testing for Heterogeneous Effects at the Product Level

Timini

Conesa

2019

Journal of Economic Integration

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

With international trade tariffs at historically low levels today, non-tariff measures (NTMs) play an important-and growing-role in global trade policy. Concerns about shifts in global trade policy agendas are on the rise. In this paper, we rely on a gravity model and focus on Chinese exports with two aims: the first is to test for heterogeneous effects of technical NTMs versus non-technical NTMs; the second is to verify whether the NTM's effect is influenced by the type of good (final good vs. intermediate or capital good). We find that: 1) technical NTMs tend to have positive effects on trade flows, potentially driven by improvements in consumers' confidence and by the technical capacities of Chinese exporters and 2) non-technical NTMs are particularly stringent for final goods, possibly due to political economy reasons or substitution effects.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chinese Exports and Non-Tariff Measures: Testing for Heterogeneous Effects at the Product Level

Timini

Conesa

2019

Journal of Economic Integration

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…It is important to study how trade policies affect firms' export-platform FDI and international sourcing decisions. Related to this issue, Conconi et al (2016) Notes: Heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors clustered at the affiliate level are in parentheses. The constant term is not reported.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sourcing patterns of export‐platform foreign affiliates: The case of Japanese affiliates in Mexico

Kondo

2017

World Economy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study investigates the sourcing patterns of Japanese export‐platform foreign affiliates in Mexico, which mainly export to the United States and Canada. We propose a novel approach to estimate intermediate input elasticities of exports by sourcing country. We find that, on average, Japanese export‐platform foreign affiliates in Mexico source intermediate inputs from third countries, including the United States and Canada, rather than from Japan and Mexico, suggesting that Japanese export‐platform foreign affiliates in Mexico are mainly integrated into the vertical production networks back and forth between Mexico, the United States and Canada. In turn, Japanese foreign affiliates selling domestically in Mexico source intermediate inputs not only within the North American Free Trade Agreement countries but also from Japan. In addition, we find that export‐platform foreign affiliates in Mexico use more labour‐intensive production than do foreign affiliates selling domestically in Mexico. This suggests that saving labour costs is one of the motives for export‐platform foreign direct investment in Mexico.

show abstract

“…4 Recent research shows that tariff preferences have a negative impact on imports from nonmember countries (e.g. Romalis, 2007;Fugazza and Nicita, 2013;Dai, Yotov, and Zylkin, 2014;Limão, 2016), especially if these preferences are coupled with strict rules of origin (Conconi, García-Santana, Puccio, and Venturini, 2018). 5 It has been shown that tariff erosion can be a factor behind the multiplication of RTAs (Baldwin and Jaimovich, 2012;Chen and Joshi, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Third-Country Effects of Regional Trade Agreements: A Firm-Level Analysis

Lee¹,

Mulabdić²,

Ruta³

2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Do regional trade agreements negatively impact non-members? This paper revisits this long-standing trade policy question using firm-level data and detailed information on the content of trade agreements. Differently from the conventional view on trade diversion, the analysis identifies a positive spillover effect of regional trade agreements: they increase the probability of export and entry of third-country firms that previously exported to one of the member countries. This spillover effect is driven by deeper trade agreements, as they make member countries more "similar" in terms of the regulatory environment. Indeed, firms exporting regulation-intensive products benefit disproportionately more from deep trade agreements in destination markets, especially if the agreement includes nondiscriminatory provisions and addresses regulatory issues. (A. Mulabdic), mruta@worldbank.org (M. Ruta) 2 The data provide information on the content of all RTAs in force and notified to the WTO in the period of analysis (Hofmann, Osnago, and Ruta, 2017).

show abstract

From Final Goods to Inputs: The Protectionist Effect of Rules of Origin

Cited by 121 publications

References 37 publications

Chinese Exports and Non-Tariff Measures: Testing for Heterogeneous Effects at the Product Level

Chinese Exports and Non-Tariff Measures: Testing for Heterogeneous Effects at the Product Level

Sourcing patterns of export‐platform foreign affiliates: The case of Japanese affiliates in Mexico

Third-Country Effects of Regional Trade Agreements: A Firm-Level Analysis

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About