Regional Transfer of Haze Pollutants Embodied in China's Foreign Trade and Factors Affecting It: A GMRIO-Based Empirical Analysis

The paper estimated the balance of emissions embodied in bilateral trade and the pollution terms of trade between China and six major world economies, including USA, Japan, and others, from 1995 to 2009, and then discussed the factors affecting them using the Structural Decomposition Analysis method. We find that, with the exception of Taiwan, the balances of the haze pollutants emissions embodied in bilateral trades were negative between China and the each of the rest five, and this was mainly resulted from the China export scale effect and intermediate input structural effects. We also find that China has become the Pollution Refuge for the economies like USA and Japan.