We examine whether a firm's import content share differentially affects the degree of tariff and exchange rate pass-through into its export prices. Our pricing-to-market model suggests that a firm's import content share negatively affects the degree of exchange rate pass-through but does not affect the degree of tariff pass-through. Using firm-level data for Chinese exporting firms during the period 2000–2006, we find evidence of an almost complete exchange rate pass-through. As expected, when we distinguish firms by their trade regime, processing-trade firms, especially pure-assembly firms which tend to have higher import-content share, have a lower exchange rate pass-through than ordinary trade firms. We find no evidence that the tariff pass-through differs across the various trade regimes.
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Bouvet, F., Ma, A. C., & Van Assche, A. (2017). Tariff and exchange rate pass-through for Chinese exports: A firm-level analysis across customs regimes. China Economic Review, 46, 87–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2017.08.013
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