{"id":3598,"date":"2022-08-10T17:47:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T17:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bfi.uchicago.cn\/working_papers\/non-tariff-trade-barriers-in-the-u-s-china-trade-war\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T20:16:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T20:16:33","slug":"non-tariff-trade-barriers-in-the-u-s-china-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"working_papers","link":"http:\/\/bfi.uchicago.cn\/zh-hans\/working_papers\/non-tariff-trade-barriers-in-the-u-s-china-trade-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Tariff Trade Barriers in the U.S.-China Trade War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"textblock textblock--main\">\n<p class=\"p1\">We use Chinese customs data to show that unofficial non-tariff barriers were responsible for 50% of the overall reduction in Chinese imports from the U.S. during the height of the U.S.-China trade war in 2018 and 2019. We infer non-tariff barriers from the change in imports of U.S. products relative to imports from other countries of the same HS-6 product, after controlling for the change in the relative price of U.S. imports to the same product sold by other countries. These barriers were imposed on a small number of agricultural products, did not apply to state-owned importers, and were larger for products where the share of state importers in total imports of the U.S. product was large. Non-tariff barriers were responsible for more than 90% of the welfare cost to Chinese consumers of the U.S.-China trade war. The welfare loss to China of a given reduction in imports from the U.S. from non-tariff barriers is about six times larger than an equivalent import decline due to higher tariffs. 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