| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP16359
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| DP16359 How COVID-19 medical supply shortages led to extraordinary trade and industrial policy |
| Chad Bown
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| 发表日期 | 2021-07-13
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| 出版年 | 2021
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, a global shortage of hospital gowns, gloves, surgical masks, and respirators caused policymakers around the world to panic. This paper examines international trade in this personal protective equipment (PPE) during the crisis, with a focus on China, the European Union, and the United States. As the pandemic first hit, China increased imports and decreased exports of PPE, removing considerable quantities of supplies from global markets. For the European Union and United States, the decrease in their imports from China was not immediately replaced by increased trade from other foreign suppliers. Early shortages led to EU and US export controls on their own, domestically produced PPE and other extraordinary policy actions, including a US effort to reserve for itself supplies manufactured in China by a US-headquartered multinational. By April 2020 China’s exports had mostly resumed, and over the rest of 2020 its export volumes of some products surged, more than doubling compared to pre-pandemic levels. But China’s export prices also skyrocketed and remained elevated through 2020, reflecting severe and continued shortages. This paper documents these facts. It also explores these and other government actions, such as US trade war tariffs and the emergence of over $1 billion of US industrial policy to build out its domestic PPE supply chain, as well as potential lessons for future pandemic preparedness and international policy cooperation. |
| 主题 | International Trade and Regional Economics
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| 关键词 | Personal protective equipment
Covid-19
Tariffs
Export restrictions
Supply chains
Industrial policy
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp16359
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/545321
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Chad Bown. DP16359 How COVID-19 medical supply shortages led to extraordinary trade and industrial policy. 2021.
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