.S. auto tariffs. The second analyzes a 'transactional deal' between the U.S. and China to close their bilateral deficit. The … third, in the absence of such a deal, considers a potential escalation in bilateral tariffs between the two countries. Some …

This paper empirically investigates the impact of tariffs when production is organized in global value chains. Using … tariffs at different stages of the production chain for a broad set of countries and industries. Our results suggest that … tariffs have significant effects on economic outcomes, including on countries and sectors not directly targeted. We find that …

trade policy - particularly the tariffs placed on imports from China - on importers, consumers, and exporters. We start by … documenting that the tariffs were almost fully passed through to total prices paid by importers, suggesting the tariffs' incidence … several large multi-national retailers, we demonstrate that the impact of the tariffs on retail prices is more mixed. Some …

In this paper we demonstrate the importance of distinguishing capital goods tariffs from other tariffs. Using exposure … reduction in intermediate and consumption input or output tariffs do not significantly increase their investment rates. However …, firms' investment rate increase strongly in response to a reduction in capital goods input tariffs. Firms do not substitute …

-CARICOM countries against time and commodity-level variation in external tariffs. I find that in each country the reduction of the …

This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of tariffs. Existing theoretical models do not provide clear … the hypothesis that tariffs have no statistically significant impact on the trade balance, the real exchange rate, or the …

how the imposition of a temporary import tariff affects the path of real exchange rates and the current account. The model … generated. In particular “equilibrium overshooting” can be observed. Precise conditions under which a temporary import tariff …

tariffs, and imports at the HS-6 digit level for 58 developing countries, and simulates results for different sets of import … of low- and middle-income countries. The study applies a linear optimization framework to data for bound tariffs, applied …

This paper attempts to assess the incremental external financing requirements occasioned by changes in world food … by country and commodity, the present study shows that the increase in net food import costs are likely to be smaller …