Abstract

This paper analyzes China's experience under U.S. apparel and textile quotas. It makes use of a new database that tracks U.S. trading partners' performance under the quota regimes established by the global Multifiber Arrangement (1974 to 1995) and subsequent Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (1995 to 2005). We find that China was relatively more constrained under these regimes than other countries and that, as quotas were lifted, China's exports grew disproportionately. When the ATC finally ended in 2005, China's exports surged while those from nearly all other regions fell.

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Khandelwal, Amit, Irene Brambilla, and Peter Schott. "China's Experience under the Multifiber Arrangement and the Agreement on Textile and Clothing." In China's Growing Role in World Trade. Ed. Robert Feenstra and Shang-Jin Wei. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, March 2010.

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