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Revealed Comparative Advantage, Intra‐industry Trade and the US Manufacturing Trade Deficit with China

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  • Guobing Shen
  • Anthony Yanxiang Gu

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This paper uses 4‐digit SITC data to identify groups of manufactured goods exported from China to the USA that have strong or rising comparative advantages. We find that most of the trades are inter‐industry, with only a small portion being vertical intra‐industry trades (IIT). Our results confirm that Sino‐US trade is complementary. We construct an imbalanced index of IIT, and identify the goods groups that aggravate and reduce the US trade deficit with China. We suggest an approach for calculating a dynamic IIT index that might mitigate the aggregation bias of the existing methodologies. Our improved index reveals that the dynamic imbalances of US‐Chinese IIT in manufactured goods are worse than their static IIT imbalances, which means that it would be difficult to correct the deficit of US trade with China in the following couple of years. Adjusting and improving the structures of industries and products is China's major task for sustainable trade growth.

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  • Guobing Shen & Anthony Yanxiang Gu, 2007. "Revealed Comparative Advantage, Intra‐industry Trade and the US Manufacturing Trade Deficit with China," China & World Economy, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, vol. 15(6), pages 87-103, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:chinae:v:15:y:2007:i:6:p:87-103
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-124X.2007.00094.x
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