Occasional Paper, Report Small Business and the Globalization of California’s Economy By Howard J. Shatz Sep 5, 2003 Testimony prepared for the field hearing of the Subcommittee on Tax, Finance, and Exports of the Committee on Small Business of the United States House of Representatives, September 2003.
Report Foreign Tariff Reductions and California Exports By Jon D. Haveman Jun 17, 2003 The federal government is working energetically on a broad array of trade liberalization agreements, but the potential effects of these agreements on California firms are not well known. This report estimates the export expansions that would result from each agreement on the current agenda. It also identifies the sources of California’s recent export growth, estimates California’s exports gains if worldwide tariffs were eliminated completely, and details the differences between California’s trade liberalization interests and those of the rest of the nation. Because new trade policies are likely to be more consequential for California than for other states, California’s firms, policymakers, and congressional delegation should weigh the report’s key findings when working with U.S. trade officials.
Report Business Without Borders? The Globalization of the California Economy By Howard J. Shatz Jun 17, 2003 State policymakers have long focused on boosting California exports and attracting foreign companies, but global economic integration is likely to provide new challenges and opportunities. This report describes California’s global exposure with special emphasis on goods and services trade, foreign direct investment, and port activity. It finds that the California economy does not differ markedly from the rest of the United States in some standard measures of economic globalization, but that California firms are at the leading edge of several emergent trends. Compared to the rest of the United States, California exports more services and manufactured goods, and its ports ship more exports by air than by land or sea. Also, California manufacturers are more likely to use production sharing than other U.S. firms.
Occasional Paper, Report Imports, Exports, and Shipping Services: The Balance Between California and Other States By Jon D. Haveman Apr 23, 2003 This material was requested by the California Congressional Delegation staff and prepared as background for a briefing in April 2003.
Occasional Paper, Report California and the World Economy: Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and U.S. Trade Policy By Ernesto Vilchis, Jon D. Haveman, Howard J. Shatz Dec 1, 2002
Report California and the World Economy: Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and U.S. Trade Policy–Appendix, Country Reports By Ernesto Vilchis, Jon D. Haveman, Howard J. Shatz Dec 1, 2002
Report California’s Vested Interest in U.S. Trade Liberalization Initiatives By Jon D. Haveman Mar 1, 2001 This report analyzes California's export markets, answering the following questions: To whom are goods shipped? What sorts of goods are exported? How significant are the barriers that California exports face in other countries? It also evaluates the effect of recent and pending trade agreements on the ability of California exports to penetrate particular foreign markets and assesses the extent to which recent and future trade initiatives disproportionately benefit or harm the California export economy.
