The literature has revealed the positive impacts of free trade agreements (FTAs) on export prices by employing product-level trade data. This paper empirically examines the impacts of FTAs on import prices at the firm level. We focus on firm-level imports in China from ASEAN countries by employing China’s firm-product-level trade data. As a result, controlling for firm characteristics and product characteristics, we could not find significantly positive impacts of an FTA’s entry into force on import prices of FTA eligible products. Instead, we found a significant increase in import quantities of FTA eligible products. Thus, at the firm level, the gains from FTAs for exporters may be the increase in export quantities rather than the rise in export prices.
権利
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雑誌名
IDE Discussion Paper
雑誌名(英)
IDE Discussion Paper
巻
436
発行年
2013-12-01
出版者
Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO)
著者版フラグ
publisher
日本十進分類法
678.3
JEL分類
JEL:F10 - General
JEL:F13 - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
JEL:F15 - Economic Integration
地域/国名
中国
東南アジア
キーワード(LSH)
China
Southeast Asia
International trade
Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
Imports
Prices
FTA utilization
How do free trade agreements change import prices? : firm-level evidence from China's imports from ASEAN
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