The impact of US anti-dumping against China on China’s manufacturing global value chains status

Abstract

Prolonged and intricate trade frictions existed between China and the US, which grew more and more intense during Trump’s presidency. Indicators of US anti-dumping policies against China of Temporary Trade Barrier Database (TTBD) from 2000 to 2014 and the global value chains indexes proposed by Wang et al. were adopted in this article to explore the impacts of such policies on China’s manufacturing global value chains status. The results showed that US anti-dumping against China policies shortened the backward linkage based production length at a faster speed, which resulted in a relatively upstream movement of the production line position in China. Ultimately, it enhanced the status of Chinese manufacturing in the global value chains. Therefore, China should continue the open-up policy and strengthen its interconnections with world economy to obtain a broader and more sustainable growing prospect.

Keywords:

• Trade frictions
• US anti-dumping against China
• China’s manufacturing
• global value chains status
• production length

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Notes

1 More details in Table 5.

2 c5 Manufacture of food products, beverages and tobacco products, c6 manufacture of textiles, wearing apparel and leather products, c7 manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, except furniture; manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials, c8 manufacture of paper and paper products, c9 printing and reproduction of recorded media, c10 manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products, C11 manufacture of chemicals and chemical products, c12 manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations, c13 manufacture of rubber and plastic products, c14 manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products, c15 manufacture of basic metals, c16 manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment, c17 manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products, c18 manufacture of electrical equipment, c19 manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c., c20 manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers, c21 manufacture of other transport equipment, c22 manufacture of furniture; other manufacturing.

3 37 trading partner countries: Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Norway, European Union (28 countries), Mexico and Brazil. Due to the availability of data at the country –sector level, there is a lack of Switzerland, Russia and Turkey among the China’s 41 trading partners in the WIOD2016 database. Since the data of the United States have been used in the previous section, it will be removed too.

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Funding

This work was supported by National Social Science Foundation of China, Jilin Province Social Science Foundation Project and the Ministry of Education.

Notes on contributors

Yibing Ding

Yibing, Ding Mainly engaged in research on international trade issues.

Hongyuan Zhang

Hongyuan, Zhang Mainly engaged in research on international trade issues.

Sitong Tang

Sitong, Tang Mainly engaged in research on global environmental issues.