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American Chemistry Council, “China’s Share of Global Capacity Continues to Surge,” April 15, 2026. https://www.americanchemistry.com/better-policy-regulation/trade/resources/china-s-share-of-global-capacity-continues-to-surge.
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MOFCOM did not specify which 90% of products would return to MFN tariff rates, nor what would happen to tariff rates on the remaining 10% of products. The US side has not confirmed these details. For simplicity, the analysis throughout this note assumes that both sides will reduce tariff rates on all Board of Trade products to MFN levels.
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To smooth out year-to-year fluctuations, we weight listed products by their average annual bilateral imports during 2020-2025.
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Our baseline scenario that serves as our point of comparison holds all countries’ share of global exports fixed at their present value through 2030 while prices evolve. In this scenario, China’s prices are declining steeply, while its volume growth remains modest, rising only slightly as world export volume increases. This means that China’s total export value in 2030 is less than its export value in 2025 in our baseline comparison ($3.6T vs. $3.1T; in our scenario where China’s export share continues to grow, its total export value increases by $681 billion annually in 2030). This has the further implication that in recent years, if China’s share of global exports had not been growing, its total export value would have otherwise declined, given the steep price declines in many sectors (and indeed, total export values did decrease in some HS 2-digit categories where volume growth was muted between 2022 and 2025).
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For methodological details see Francois de Soyres et al., “The Sectoral Evolution of China’s Trade,” Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, February 28, 2025. https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/the-sectoral-evolution-of-chinas-trade-20250228.html.