Are retaliatiory tariffs politically targeted and, if so, are they effective? Do countries designing a retaliation …

President Bush imposed safeguard tariffs on steel in early 2002. Using US input-output tables and a generalized … difference-in-difference methodology, we analyze the local labor market employment effects of these tariffs depending on the … local labor market's reliance on steel as an input and as part of local production. We find the tariffs did not boost local …

Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy …

During the U.S.-China trade war, the U.S. punitive tariffs were almost entirely borne by U.S. importers. In contrast …, only 68% of China's retaliatory tariffs were paid by Chinese importers. The puzzling difference between the U.S. and China …

This paper uses a new dataset on the universe of Canadian imports and tariffs between 1924 and 1936, disaggregated into … tariffs which varied substantially across goods, trade partners, and time. We develop a novel method of controlling for … the impact of tariffs on trade flows. The overall impact of post-1929 tariff shifts, including the 1932 agreements, was …

.g. most favored nation tariffs) and on the exporter side (e.g. export subsidies), even in the presence of exporter and …-supply elasticity and of the import-demand elasticity. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our techniques in the case of MFN tariffs and …

bilateral applied tariffs for each product category for the universe of available country pairs over the 2001 to 2016 period. We …