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What the iPhone tells us about China’s trade

When China opened up, Chinese income increased and China went from a poor to a middle-income country. In this video, Miajie Yu discusses the impact of trade liberalisation on firm productivity in China. Openness to trade had a big impact on processing trade – such as putting together iPhones – and now accounts for half of Chinese trade. This video was recorded in March 2016 during the Royal Economic Society’s Annual Conference held at the University of Sussex.

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  • China and the global value chain: New evidence [1]
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Topics:  Global economy [3] International trade [4]

Tags:  Chinese growth [5], trade liberalisation [6], firm productivity [7], import competition [8], processing trade [9]


Source URL: https://voxeu.org/content/what-iphone-tells-us-about-china-s-trade

Links
[1] https://voxeu.org/article/china-and-global-value-chain-new-evidence
[2] https://voxeu.org/article/firms-and-credit-constraints-along-global-value-chain-processing-trade-china
[3] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/global-economy
[4] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/international-trade
[5] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/6176
[6] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/187
[7] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/1499
[8] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/940
[9] https://voxeu.org/category/tags/processing-trade