PMID- 33466911 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210318 LR - 20210318 IS - 1660-4601 (Electronic) IS - 1661-7827 (Print) IS - 1660-4601 (Linking) VI - 18 IP - 2 DP - 2021 Jan 14 TI - Substantial Nitrogen Oxide Pollution Is Embodied in the Bilateral Trade between China and the European Union. LID - 10.3390/ijerph18020675 [doi] LID - 675 AB - Against the backdrop of globalization and trade facilitation, the products consumed by a country are more and more relying on the importation of those products from other countries. Therefore, the pollutant emissions of products associated are transferred from consuming countries to exporting countries, which significantly changes the spatial distribution of global pollutant emissions. The objective of this research is to analyse the embodied nitrogen oxide (NO(x)) emissions in the trading process between China and the European Union (EU) and to further trace the interindustry and intercountry transfer paths. This study constructs a multiregional input-output (MRIO) model based on the latest EORA global supply chain database. The MRIO model quantitatively analyses the total NO(x) emissions from the production and consumption ends of China and the EU from 1995 to 2014. Important findings are derived from the empirical results as follows. (1) In 2014, China's production end emissions were 1824.38 kilotons higher than those of the consumption end. By contrast, the situation in the EU was the opposite, i.e., production end emissions were 1711.97 kilotons lower than those of the consumption end. (2) In the trade between China and the EU, the EU is a net importer of embodied NO(x), and China is a net exporter of embodied NO(x). In 2014, 2.55% of China's domestic NO(x) emissions were transferred to the EU in China-EU trade, accounting for 2.75% of China's domestic consumption demand. (3) In 2014, Electricity, Gas and Water (397.75 kilotons), Transport (343.55 kilotons), Petroleum, Chemical and non-metallic Products (95.9 kilotons), Metal Products (49.88 kilotons), Textiles and Apparel (26.19 kilotons), are among the industries with the most embodied NOx emissions from China's net exports during its two-way trade with the EU. (4) In the bilateral trade between the EU and China, many countries are in the state of embodied NO(x) net import. The top three net importers in 2014 were Germany (169.24 kilotons), Britain (128.11 kilotons), France (103.21 kilotons). FAU - Li, Yan AU - Li Y AD - Business School, Shandong University, Weihai 264209, China. FAU - Wei, Yigang AU - Wei Y AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6190-2241 AD - School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China. AD - Beijing Key Laboratory of Emergency Support Simulation Technologies for City Operations, Beijing 100191, China. FAU - Wang, Xueqing AU - Wang X AD - School of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China. FAU - Xu, Hanxiao AU - Xu H AD - School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20210114 PL - Switzerland TA - Int J Environ Res Public Health JT - International journal of environmental research and public health JID - 101238455 RN - 0 (Nitrogen Oxides) SB - IM MH - China MH - European Union MH - France MH - Germany MH - *Nitrogen Oxides PMC - PMC7830564 OTO - NOTNLM OT - China-EU trade OT - MRIO model OT - NOx emission reduction OT - embodied NOx emissions OT - production and consumption ends COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2021/01/21 06:00 MHDA- 2021/03/19 06:00 PMCR- 2021/01/01 CRDT- 2021/01/20 01:07 PHST- 2020/11/14 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/01/11 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/01/11 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/01/20 01:07 [entrez] PHST- 2021/01/21 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/03/19 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - ijerph18020675 [pii] AID - ijerph-18-00675 [pii] AID - 10.3390/ijerph18020675 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jan 14;18(2):675. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18020675.