This paper describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the …

We analyze several rounds of U.S. import restrictions against washing machines. Using retail price data, we estimate … the price effect of these import restrictions by comparing the price changes of washers with those of other appliances. We … find that in response to the 2018 tariffs on nearly all source countries, the price of washers rose by nearly 12 percent …

Direct empirical evidence on whether domestic consumers or foreign exporters bear the burden of a country's import … impact on the import price, whereas about 40 percent of a tariff increase is passed through to consumer prices and 60 percent …

sensitive to changes in import prices. Although import price fluctuations had a much greater impact on U.S. production than … changes in import duties, our estimates suggest that the tariff permitted domestic output to be about thirty to forty percent …

century of data. The results show that the standard import-weighted average tariff understates the TRI, defined as the uniform … thereafter to less than one-tenth of one percent of GDP by the early 1960s. On average, import duties resulted in a welfare loss …

for information-technology products. We demonstrate how unmeasured gains in the terms of trade and declines in tariffs can …

This paper re-examines aggregate and disaggregate import and export demand functions for the United States. This re … tariffs rates explains some of results. Accounting for these factors yields more plausible estimates of income elasticities …

) with foreign countries. The resulting trade agreements reduced U.S. tariffs and culminated in the General Agreement on … Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1947. Was the Great Depression responsible for bringing about this fundamental shift in U.S. trade …

In 2003, after claims of dumping, the U.S. imposed heavy tariffs on imports of catfish from Vietnam. As a result …

imports in an effort to force other countries to revalue their currencies against the dollar. The import surcharge was lifted …, economic, and legal issues surrounding the import surcharge. This historical episode may shed light on the possible use of …