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ENG
  • 경제배움
  • Economic

    Information

    and Education

    Center

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The ripple effect: supply chain reconfigurations and cross-border credit dynamics
BIS
2025.12.12
We study the role that cross-border firm-to-firm credit plays in financing exporters. Exploiting the exogenous shock of US tariffs on Chinese goods in 2018-2019, we examine the response of Colombian firms bystanders not targeted by trade policy to redirected US demand. Using credit registry information for cross-border and domestic non-financial firm financing, we find that almost 40 percent of the total credit sourced by exporters came from cross-border firm-to-firm credit at end-2019, which represented 80 percent of their cross-border credit. In contrast to traditional trade credit, which is typically short-term, firm-to-firm credit has an average maturity of almost 2 years, and has characteristics resembling bank lending. Our findings highlight an overlooked financial channel underpinning the international trade network.