NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CODIFICATION, TECHNOLOGY ABSORPTION, AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Réka Juhász Shogo Sakabe David Weinstein Working Paper 32667 http://www.nber.org/papers/w32667 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2024 We give special thanks to Chris Meissner and John Tang for sharing their trade data for Belgium an