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This paper examines the impact of immigration on bilateral trade using a panel dataset of exports from 18 top migrant destinations (countries) to 69 top emigrant sources (countries) over five decades. Using various specifications of the gravity equation, we find that immigrants' ethnic network contributes positively to exports, though the impact is much smaller than reported previously. Using a matching gravity framework, we explore the possibility of an indirect negative impact of immigration on bilateral trade. Though our estimation provides evidence of only a small direct positive impact of immigration on exports, we find the impact is much more important for a subset of countries. Our paper also provides evidence that immigration-trade links vary across product types