Abstract
The article uses the product-level and industry-level data to empirically test the relationship between China's import of wood forest products and the pollution discharge of forest products industry from 2003 to 2015. The results of the benchmark model show that the import of wood forest products has a significant role in reducing the pollution emission of forest products industry. Furthermore, taking the total factor productivity as the intermediary variable, it is found that the import of wood forest products can improve the total factor productivity, thus promoting the pollution emission reduction of forest products industry. In addition, from the perspective of different factor intensive products, the empirical results show that the capital and technology intensive and the labor-intensive have different positive effects on pollution reduction through the improvement of total factor productivity.
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