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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 258, 2021
Ural Environmental Science Forum “Sustainable Development of Industrial Region” (UESF-2021)
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| Article Number | 06036 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Environmental Planning and Economic | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202125806036 | |
| Published online | 20 May 2021 | |
Gravity model and Pakistan - China Trade
1 Rostov State Transport University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
2 ILMA University, Karachi, Pakistan
3 IProCares Research Center, Beirut, Lebanon
4 Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand
* Corresponding author: denis.us@ssru.ac.th
Pakistan being an important ally of the war against terror paying huge price of not merely of innocent lives of people but huge monetary losses in many sectors of economy, one lucrative sector is international trade. Pakistan’s export potential has undergone strenuous pressures to perform according to the past performance. There was a need to reveal new export potential and lucrative sectors of economy with recommended policy changes so that new paradigm change in international trade can be initiated. This empirical study carried to meet the objective in which gravity model is used for investigating the bilateral trade between Pakistan and China. This model is being used extensively by the researchers worldwide to make predictions about volume of international trade to suggest the policy changes in international trade management. The findings confirm that the tariff rates significantly and negatively affects the Export Volume from Pakistan to China as t-stats > 1.5 which results the trade deficit to be increased, while the affinity (i.e. bilateral visits of people of Pakistan and China to each other countries, bilateral dialogues between China and Pakistan, Social integrations programs between China and Pakistan etc.) between China and Pakistan and Geography (i.e. the trading countries are both in Asia with the connected borders) significantly and positively affects the Export Volume from Pakistan to China as t-stats > 1.5, thus the trade deficit is reduced due to stated affinity and geography. The large value of F-stats also reports that the relationships of export volume from Pakistan to China with all outlined stated explanatory variables/ predictors (i.e. the gravity model for bilateral trade between Pakistan and China) will remain alive for longer period of time in future.
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