Manufacturing is the engine of the world economy. Under complicated and volatile international situation, it is worth thinking about where the world manufacturing trade pattern will go. Therefore, it is necessary to sort out the trade-related research of manufacturing trade. This paper systematically reviewed the research on international trade in manufacturing through qualitative and quantitative research methods, which made up for the deficiency of the existing reviews in this field. This paper used CiteSpace software to carry out a bibliometric analysis of 1027 documents from the Web of Science (1996-2020). The study found that authoritative journals in this field are concentrated in the economic field and the quality of publications is high. The cooperation between scholars is not close, and papers are mainly distributed in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The research focus has shifted from international trade, productivity and impact to performance, China, innovation, etc. International trade in manufacturing was subdivided into eight major research fields. According to the burst-detection, national trade markups, input and output analysis, improvement of quality, and export market will become future development trends.
Bernard, A. B., Jensen, J. B., Redding, S. J., & Schott, P. K. (2012). The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade. Annual Review of Economics, 4, 283-313. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080511-110928
Bustos, P. (2011). Trade Liberalization, Exports, and Technology Upgrading: Evidence on the Impact of MERCOSUR on Argentinian Firms. American Economic Review, 101, 304-340. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.101.1.304
Chen, C., Ibekwe-Sanjuan, F., & Hou, J. (2010). The Structure and Dynamics of Co-Citation Clusters: A Multiple-Perspective Co-Citation Analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61, 1386-1409. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.21309
Chen, X. P., & Shao, Y. C. (2017). Trade Policies for a Small Open Economy: The Case of Singapore. World Economy, 40, 2500-2511. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12555
Cherniwchan, J., Copeland, B. R., & Taylor, M. S. (2017). Trade and the Environment: New Methods, Measurements, and Results. Annual Review of Economics, 9, 59-85. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-063016-103756
Davis, S. J., & Caldeira, K. (2010). Consumption-Based Accounting of CO2 Emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 5687-5692. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0906974107
Eaton, J., Kortum, S., & Kramarz, F. (2011). An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms. Econometrica, 79, 1453-1498. https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA8318
Frei, F., Loder, A., & Bening, C. R. (2018). Liquidity in Green Power Markets: An International Review. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 93, 674-690. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2018.05.034
Garfield, E. (2006). The History and Meaning of the Journal Impact Factor. JAMA: the Journal of the American Medical Association, 295, 90-93. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.295.1.90
Goldberg, P. K., Khandelwal, A. K., Pavcnik, N., & Topalova, P. (2010). Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth: Evidence from India. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125, 1727-1767. https://doi.org/10.1162/qjec.2010.125.4.1727
Hallak, J. C., & Sivadasan, J. (2013). Product and Process Productivity: Implications for Quality Choice and Conditional Exporter Premia. Journal of International Economics, 91, 53-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2013.05.001
Johnson, R. C. (2012). Trade and Prices with Heterogeneous Firms. Journal of International Economics, 86, 43-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2011.09.004
Kanemoto, K., Lenzen, M., Peters, G. P., Moran, D. D., & Geschke, A. (2012). Frameworks for Comparing Emissions Associated with Production, Consumption, And International Trade. Environmental Science & Technology, 46, 172-179. https://doi.org/10.1021/es202239t
Kasahara, H., & Lapham, B. (2013). Productivity and the Decision to Import and Export: Theory and Evidence. Journal of International Economics, 89, 297-316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2012.08.005
Khandelwal, A. (2010). The Long and Short (of) Quality Ladders. The Review of Economic Studies, 77, 1450-1476. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-937X.2010.00602.x
Khandelwal, A., & Topalova, P. (2011). Trade Liberalization and Firm Productivity: The Case of India. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 93, 995-1009. https://doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00095
Kleinberg, J. (2002). Bursty and Hierarchical Structure in Streams. Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 7, 91-101. https://doi.org/10.1145/775047.775061
Kugler, M., & Verhoogen, E. (2011). Prices, Plant Size, and Product Quality. The Review of Economic Studies, 79, 307-339. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdr021
Li, Y., & Hewitt, C. N. (2008). The Effect of Trade between China and the UK on National and Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions. Energy Policy, 36, 1907-1914. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2008.02.005
Lileeva, A., & Trefler, D. (2010). Improved Access to Foreign Markets Raises Plant-Level Productivity…For Some Plants. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125, 1051-1099. https://doi.org/10.1162/qjec.2010.125.3.1051
Loecker, J., Goldberg, P., Khandelwal, A., & Pavcnik, N. (2012). Prices, Markups and Trade Reform. Econometrica, 84, 445-510. https://doi.org/10.3386/w17925
Manova, K. (2012). Credit Constraints, Heterogeneous Firms, and International Trade. The Review of Economic Studies, 80, 711-744. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rds036
Manova, K., & Zhang, Z. (2012). Export Prices across Firms and Destinations. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127, 379-436. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjr051
Meng, J., Mi, Z., Guan, D., Li, J., Tao, S., Li, Y., & Davis, S. J. (2018). The Rise of South-South Trade and Its Effect on Global CO2 Emissions. Nature Communications, 9, 1871. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04337-y
Miller, R., & Blair, P. (2009). Input-Output Analysis. Washington DC: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511626982
Naudé, W., & Szirmai, A. (2012). The Importance of Manufacturing in Economic Development: Past, Present and Future Perspectives. Merit Working Papers, 2012-041.
Nelson, D. R. (2019). Facing up to Trump Administration Mercantilism: The 2018 WTO Trade Policy Review of the United States. World Economy, 42, 3430-3437. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12875
Orden, D., & Roberts, D. (2007). Food Regulation and Trade under the WTO: Ten Years in Perspective. Agricultural Economics, 37, 103-116. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-0862.2007.00238.x
Peters, G. P., & Hertwich, E. G. (2008). CO2 Embodied in International Trade with Implications for Global Climate Policy. Environmental Science & Technology, 42, 1401-1407. https://doi.org/10.1021/es072023k
Peters, G. P., Weber, C. L., Guan, D., & Hubacek, K. (2007). China’s Growing CO2 Emissions: A Race between Increasing Consumption and Efficiency Gains. Environmental Science & Technology, 41, 5939-5944. https://doi.org/10.1021/es070108f
Sanchez-Fung, J. R. (2016). Reviewing Trade Policy in China during the Transition to Balanced Economic Growth. World Economy, 39, 1934-1946. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12476
Small, H. (1973). Co-Citation in the Scientific Literature: A New Measure of the Relationship between Two Documents. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 24, 265-269. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630240406
Su, B., & Ang, B. W. (2014). Input-Output Analysis of CO2 Emissions Embodied in Trade: A Multi-Region Model for China. Applied Energy, 114, 377-384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.09.036
Timmer, M. P., Dietzenbacher, E., Los, B., Stehrer, R., & de Vries, G. J. (2015). An Illustrated User Guide to the World Input-Output Database: the Case of Global Automotive Production. Review of International Economics, 23, 575-605. https://doi.org/10.1111/roie.12178
USTR (2018). USTR Issues Tariffs on Chinese Products in Response to Unfair Trade Practices. https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2018/ june/ustr-issues-tariffs-chinese-products
Vaubourg, A. G. (2016). Finance and International Trade: A Review of the Literature. Revue D Economie Politique, 126, 57-87. https://doi.org/10.3917/redp.261.0057
Verhoogen, E. A. (2008). Trade, Quality Upgrading, and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123, 489-530. https://doi.org/10.1162/qjec.2008.123.2.489
Wagner, J. (2007). Exports and Productivity: A Survey of the Evidence from Firm-Level Data. The World Economy, 30, 60-82. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9701.2007.00872.x
Wagner, J. (2012). International Trade and Firm Performance: A Survey of Empirical Studies Since 2006. Review of World Economics, 148, 235-267. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10290-011-0116-8
Wiedmann, T., Lenzen, M., Turner, K., & Barrett, J. (2007). Examining the Global Environmental Impact of Regional Consumption Activities—Part 2: Review of Input-Output Models for the Assessment of Environmental Impacts Embodied in Trade. Ecological Economics, 61, 15-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.12.003
Zhang, X. F. (2017). Trade Policy Review for China: The World’s Top Exporter with “New Normal” Economic Growth. World Economy, 40, 2491-2499. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12569