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Recent heterogeneous firm literature has revised the basic assumptions of constant marginal costs; markets may thus be complements or substitutes. Using Chinese firm‐level data for 1998–2007, our study utilises the 2004 export tax rebate (ETR) cut as a quasi‐natural experiment to demonstrate how the domestic market may be a fall back for exporters when they encounter exogenous negative export shocks,...