How do exporters adjust export product scope and product mix to react to antidumping?

Yi Lu, Zhigang Tao and Yan Zhang

China Economic Review, 2018, vol. 51, issue C, 20-41

Abstract: Using Chinese customs data covering all exporters over 2000–06, this paper empirically investigates how Chinese multi-product exporters adjust their product scope and product mix to react to U.S. antidumping. The estimation results indicate that surviving exporters experiencing antidumping would reduce their overall export product scope and concentrate on fewer more successful products, although the overall export value does not change. Specifically, they drop many pre-existing peripheral export products and simultaneously introduce new products that are closer to their main industry into the U.S. market. The analysis also finds that the sophistication of surviving exporters' export product mix increases in response to antidumping, and they export more products that have higher upstreamness.

Keywords: Antidumping; Difference-in-differences; Multi-product exporters; Export product scope; Product mix (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 F13 F14 L25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2018.04.010

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