Publications

• Supply Chain Disruptions and Containerized Agricultural Exports From California Ports. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 45(2), 1051-1071.
  Carter, Colin A., Sandro Steinbach, and Xiting Zhuang. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13311
  

• Global Container Shipping Disruptions, Pop-Up Ports, and U.S. Agricultural Exports. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 1-19.
  Steinbach, Sandro and Xiting Zhuang.
  http://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13399
  

• The Impact of Maritime Shipping Disruptions on U.S. Tree Nut Exports and Inventories. Agribusiness. 2023.
  Steinbach, Sandro and Xiting Zhuang.
  https://doi.org/10.1002/agr.21809
  

• U.S. Agricultural Exports and the 2022 Mississippi River Drought. Agribusiness, 2023 (Forthcoming).
  Steinbach, Sandro and Xiting Zhuang.
  

• ‘Containergeddon’ and California Agriculture. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural, University of California, Davis. 2021. ARE Update 25(2): 1–4.
  Carter, Colin A. Carter, Sandro Steinbach, and Xiting Zhuang.
  https://giannini.ucop.edu/filer/file/1640021835/20297/
  

• A Portrait of Firms that Trade in Meat Products. Western Economics Forum.
  Schweizer, Heidi, Sandro Steinbach and Xiting Zhuang, 2022.
  10.22004/ag.econ.329728
  

• Retaliatory Tariffs and Container Shipping Disruptions Cause Considerable Trade Damages to California’s Almond Industry. Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, AAEA, 38(1-9). 2023
  Steinbach, Sandro and Xiting Zhuang.
  10.22004/ag.econ.337188
  

• Urbanization Process and Carbon Emission in China Based on Semi-Parametric Spatial Lags Model. Logistics Engineering and Management. 2016.
  Xiting, Zhuang.
  

Working Papers

• Trade Implications of Ending China’s Zero-Covid Policy.
  Sandro Steinbach and Xiting Zhuang.
  (Under review)

• Global Shipping Container Disruptions and U.S. Agricultural Exports. Working Paper 2022-04.
  Carter, Colin A., Sandro Steinbach, and Xiting Zhuang.
  

• Global Trade Effects of Tightening Environmental Trade Policies in China.
  Sandro Steinbach and Xiting Zhuang.
  

Work in Progress

• Covid-19 Pandemic on International Trade: Evidence from China, with Sandro Steinbach.
  

• After Maths of the Basel Convention: The Trade Effects of Environmental Provisions in Pref- erential Trade Agreements.
  

• “Environmental Standard, Waste Backhaul and Maritime Trade.”, with Sandro Steinbach.
  

• “The Role of Clientele Politics on Agricultural Subsidies.”, with Sandro Steinbach.
  

Outreach and Other Publications

• Down the River: How the 2022 Mississippi River Drought Damaged Southern U.S. Agricultural Trade, Southern Ag Today. 2(4.5).2023.
  Sandro Steinbach and Xiting Zhuang.
  

• International Market Concentration in the Southern Meat Trading Market., Southern Ag Today. 2(29.4).2022.
  Heidi Schweizer, Sandro Steinbach and Xiting Zhuang.
  

• Shipping Container Disruptions Cause Considerable Export Losses for Southern Ports, Southern Ag Today. 2(17.4).2022.
  Sandro Steinbach and Xiting Zhuang.
  

• Cost-Benefit Analysis of Detection Systems for Protect- ing Critical Infrastructure from UAV Threats in Connecticut, Eversource Energy.2021.
  Sandro Steinbach and Xiting Zhuang.
  

Selected Media Coverage

• “US Is Losing Soybean-Export Edge as Brazil Closes Logistics Gap” Bloomberg, September 6, 2022.
  

• “US Citrus Growers Struggle During Supply Chain Snarl” The Epoch Times, February 16, 2022.
  

• “Assembly Select Committee on Ports and Goods Movement” California State Assembly Committee on Agriculture, February 2, 2022.
  

• ““Containergeddon” Results in $2.1B Loss to California Farmers” Western Growers, January 20, 2022.
  

• “Containergeddon Cost Ag $2.1 Billion Last Summer, And Supply Chain Bottlenecks Aren’t Over Yet”, KVPR, NPR for Central California, January 11, 2022.
  

• “Inefficient California Ports Cost Farmers Billions.”, UConn Today, January 3, 2022.