%0 Journal Article %T El efecto de China en el comercio internacional de Am¨¦rica Latina %A Montenegro %A Claudio E %A Pereira %A Mariana %A Soloaga %A Isidro %J Estudios de econom¨ªa %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-52862011000200001 %X using a gravity model, this article presents an analysis of aggregate trade flows aimed at identifying china's impact on latin america's trade. the results obtained indicate that: i) china's growth in the last years implied a growing supply of exports to this market from most countries in the world, including that of latin american countries; ii) at the aggregate level, there was no indication that chinese exports to third markets were crowding out lac exports to those countries; and iii) a positive relationship between imports from china and exports to third markets was only found for the southern cone countries. %K bilateral trade %K gravity model %K poisson regression %K china %K latin america. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-52862011000200001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en