Trade Policy Dynamics: Evidence from 60 Years of US-China Trade

George Alessandria, Shafaat Yar Khan, Armen Khederlarian, Kim J. Ruhl and Joseph Steinberg

Journal of Political Economy, 2025, vol. 133, issue 3, 713 - 749

Abstract: We study China’s export growth to the United States from 1950 to 2008, using a structural model to disentangle the effects of past tariff changes from the effects of changes in expectations of future tariffs. We find that the effects of China’s 1980 Normal Trade Relations (NTR) grant lasted past its 2001 accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the likelihood of losing NTR status decreased significantly during 1986–92 but changed little thereafter. US manufacturing employment trends support our findings: industries more exposed to the 1980 reform have shed workers steadily since then without acceleration around China’s WTO accession.

Date: 2025
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