TY  - JOUR
AU  - Brambilla,Irene
AU  - Khandelwal,Amit
AU  - Schott,Peter
TI  - China's Experience Under the Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) and the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC)
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13346
PY  - 2007
Y2  - August 2007
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13346
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13346.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Irene Brambilla
Calle 6 entre 47 y 48
Departamento de Economía
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Argentina
Tel: +54-221-4229383
Fax: +54-221-4229383
E-Mail: irene.brambilla@econo.unlp.edu.ar

Amit Khandelwal
Graduate School of Business
Columbia University
Uris Hall 606, 3022 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Tel: 212/854-7506
Fax: 212/316-9219
E-Mail: ak2796@columbia.edu

Peter K. Schott
Yale School of Management
135 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06520-8200
Tel: 203/436-4260
Fax: 203/432-6974
E-Mail: peter.schott@yale.edu
AB  - This paper analyzes China's experience under U.S. apparel and textile quotas. It makes use of a unique 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.
ER  -