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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 (NOx) 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\u2013output (MRIO) model based on the latest EORA global supply chain database. The MRIO model quantitatively analyses the total NOx 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\u2019s 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 NOx, and China is a net exporter of embodied NOx. In 2014, 2.55% of China\u2019s domestic NOx emissions were transferred to the EU in China-EU trade, accounting for 2.75% of China\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 NOx net import. The top three net importers in 2014 were Germany (169.24 kilotons), Britain (128.11 kilotons), France (103.21 kilotons).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph18020675","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,14]],"date-time":"2021-01-14T11:39:14Z","timestamp":1610624354000},"page":"675","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Substantial Nitrogen Oxide Pollution Is Embodied in the Bilateral Trade between China and the European Union"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Yan","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Business School, Shandong University, Weihai 264209, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6190-2241","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yigang","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"},{"name":"Beijing Key Laboratory of Emergency Support Simulation Technologies for City Operations, Beijing 100191, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xueqing","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hanxiao","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"290","DOI":"10.1016\/j.wasman.2016.09.001","article-title":"Investigating the determinants of contractor\u2019s construction and demolition waste management behavior in Mainland China","volume":"60","author":"Wu","year":"2017","journal-title":"Waste Manag."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"129","DOI":"10.1007\/s13280-016-0815-4","article-title":"Nitrogen footprints: Regional realities and options to reduce nitrogen loss to the environment","volume":"46","author":"Shibata","year":"2017","journal-title":"Ambio"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"111","DOI":"10.1038\/ngeo2635","article-title":"Substantial nitrogen pollution embedded in international trade","volume":"9","author":"Oita","year":"2016","journal-title":"Nat. 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