The staff research publications help keep the Commission and the public current on domestic and global activities that affect U.S. trade, investment, and competitiveness conditions. This research is typically conducted by staff in the Office of Economics and Office of Industries, and is published in three different formats. For further information about the differences between the publications, please visit Publications Type information.
Note that staff research publications reflect the work of individual authors and are not the views of the U.S. International Trade Commission or any of its individual Commissioners.
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Title | Document Type | Date | Author |
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A Comparison of Sectoral Armington Elasticity Estimates in the Trade Literature | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Jun 2021 | Saad Ahmad, Christopher Montgomery, Samantha Schreiber |
Data Protection Laws in Africa: A Pan-African Survey and Noted Trends | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Mar 2021 | Brian Daigle |
The WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement: Implementation Status and Next Steps | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Nov 2020 | Joann Peterson |
A Calibrated Approach: Pharmaceutical FDI and the Evolution of Indian Patent Law | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Aug 2007 | Katherine Linton, Nicholas Corrado |
A Survey of Empirical Models of Labor Transitions Following Trade Liberalization | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Jun 2016 | David Riker, William Swanson |
A Tale of Two Cities: A Comparison of Patent-based Innovative Performance of Domestic and Multinational Companies in China | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | May 2011 | Zheng Liang, Lan Xue |
Access to Capital in China: Competitive Conditions for Foreign and Domestic Firms | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Dec 2006 | Katherine Linton |
Additive Manufacturing Technology: Potential Implications for U.S. Manufacturing Competitiveness | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Sep 2014 | Sharon L.N. Ford |
An Overview of Customs Reforms to Facilitate Trade | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Aug 2017 | Joann Peterson |
Can We Apply Lessons from the German Trade Balance with China to the United States? | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Jan 2012 | John B. Benedetto |
Challenges to Foreign Investment in High-Tech Semiconductor Production in China | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | May 2009 | Falan Yinug |
China Climbs the Global Value Chain for Medical Devices | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Mar 2018 | Mihir P. Torsekar |
China’s Changing Medical Device Exports | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Jan 2018 | Mihir P. Torsekar |
China’s Vision for Renewable Energy: The Status of Bioenergy and Bioproduct Research and Commercialization | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Aug 2011 | Elisabeth Nesbitt, Paul Thiers, Johnway Gao, Sharon Shoemaker, Manuel Garcia-Perez, Julie Carrier, Joy Doran-Peterson, John Morgan, Guangyi Wang, Pierre Christian Wensel, Shulin Chen |
Chinese Semiconductor Industrial Policy: Past and Present | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Jul 2019 | John VerWey |
Chinese Semiconductor Industrial Policy: Prospects for Future Success | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Aug 2019 | John VerWey |
Comment on Innovation and Job Creation in a Global Economy: The Case of Apple’s iPod | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Jan 2012 | José Alberro |
Developments in the Sourcing of Raw Materials for the Production of Paper | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Aug 2009 | Vincent Honnold |
Distinctive Patterns and Prospects in China-Latin America Trade, 1999-2005 | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Sep 2006 | Alexander B. Hammer, James A. Kilpatrick |
Does Trade Promote State Capacity in Ghana? A Synthetic Control | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Mar 2018 | Jeremy E. J. Streatfeild |
East Asia-Pacific’s Participation in the Global Value Chain for Electronic Products | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Mar 2019 | Mihir P. Torsekar, John VerWey |
Electricity Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Historical Overview and a Way Forward | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Jun 2018 | Jeremy E. J. Streatfeild |
Export Taxes on Agricultural Products: Recent History and Economic Modeling of Soybean Export Taxes in Argentina | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Sep 2007 | William Deese, John Roeder |
Export-Intensive Industries Pay More on Average: An Update | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Nov 2015 | David Riker |
Feeding the Dragon and the Elephant: How Agricultural Policies and Trading Regimes Influence Consumption in China and India | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | May 2013 | Katherine Baldwin, Joanna Bonarriva |
Geographically Disaggregated Import Data and Consumer Gains from Trade | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Dec 2013 | David Riker |
Global Value Chain Analysis: Concepts and Approaches | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Apr 2019 | Lin Jones, Meryem Demirkaya, Erika Bethmann |
Green Building Services | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Oct 2015 | Jennifer Baumert Powell |
Implications and Interpretations of Value-Added Trade Balances | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Jul 2012 | John B. Benedetto |
Inbound and Outbound U.S. Direct Investment With Leading Partner Countries, 2000-2007 | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Jun 2007 | Laura Bloodgood |
Industrial Biotechnology in China Amidst Changing Market Conditions | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Feb 2009 | Elisabeth Nesbitt |
Innovation and Job Creation in a Global Economy: The Case of Apple’s iPod | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | May 2011 | Greg Linden, Jason Dedrick, Kenneth L. Kraemer |
Innovation in Biotechnology Seeds: Public and Private Initiatives in India and China | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | May 2011 | Katherine Linton, Mihir Torsekar |
Korea’s Demand for U.S. Beef | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Jan 2013 | John Giamalva |
Labor Standards and Trade: A Review of Recent Empirical Evidence | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Aug 2012 | Samira Salem, Fina Rozental |
Low Electricity Supply in Sub-Saharan Africa: Causes, Implications, and Remedies | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Jun 2018 | Jeremy E. J. Streatfeild |
Measuring Shifts in Brazil’s Trade Using International Input-Output Tables | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Apr 2014 | Jeffrey Horowitz, David Riker |
More Than a Pretty Color: The Renaissance of the Cobalt Industry | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Feb 2019 | Samantha DeCarlo, Daniel Matthews |
On the Value Chain and International Specialization of China’s Pharmaceutical Industry | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | May 2011 | Yansheng Zang, Dawei Li, Changyong Yang, Qiong Du |
Overview of U.S.-China Trade in Advanced Technology Products | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | May 2011 | Alexander B. Hammer, Robert Koopman, Andrew Martinez |
Policy Challenges of Cross-Border Computing | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | May 2012 | Renee Berry, Matthew Reisman |
Proceedings of the Joint Symposium of U.S.-China Advanced Technology Trade and Industrial Development | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | May 2011 | Various authors |
Services Liberalization and Computable General Equilibrium Modeling: Beyond Tariff Equivalents | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Feb 2010 | Tani Fukui, Christine McDaniel |
Study of China’s International Specialization Status in Advanced Technology Industry: A Case Study of Zhejiang Pinghu Opto-mechatronics Industry Cluster | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | May 2011 | Huang Xianhai, Yang Gaoju, Lu Jing |
Summary of the U.S. International Trade Commission Centennial Proceedings | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Sep 2017 | John Benedetto, Lauren Gamache, James Holbein, Craig Thomsen |
The Antigua-United States Online Gambling Dispute | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Jul 2009 | Isaac Wohl |
The Boom in Brazilians Traveling to the United States | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Jan 2013 | David Riker, Jessica Vila-Goulding |
The Economic Implications of Strengthening Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Nov 2014 | Alexi Maxwell, David Riker |
The Effects of Offshoring on U.S. Workers: A Review of the Literature | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Jun 2018 | Andre Barbe, David Riker |
The EU General Data Protection Regulation: An Analysis of Enforcement Trends by EU Data Protection Authorities | Journal of International Commerce and Economics | Jun 2020 | Brian Daigle, Mahnaz Khan |