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tariffs rates explains some of results. Accounting for these factors yields more plausible estimates of income elasticities …
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each 1 percentage point increase in exposure to the US tariffs was associated with a 0.59% reduction in night … grids with negligible direct exposure to the US tariffs accounted for up to 70% of China's population, we infer that the 2 … tariffs …
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percentage points of the tariffs are explained by terms of trade considerations. Decomposing the politically-optimal tariff in …
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find that in response to the 2018 tariffs on nearly all source countries, the price of washers rose by nearly 12 percent …; the price of dryers--a complementary good not subject to tariffs--increased by an equivalent amount. Factoring in the … effect of dryers and price increases by domestic brands, our estimates for the 2018 tariffs on washers imply a tariff …
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for information-technology products. We demonstrate how unmeasured gains in the terms of trade and declines in tariffs can …
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In 2003, after claims of dumping, the U.S. imposed heavy tariffs on imports of catfish from Vietnam. As a result …
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This paper presents new annual estimates of U.S. production of pig iron and imports of pig iron products dating back to 1827. These estimates are used to assess the vulnerability of the antebellum iron industry to foreign competition and the role of the tariff in fostering the industry's early...
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This paper calculates the Anderson-Neary (2005) trade restrictiveness index (TRI) for the United States using nearly a century of data. The results show that the standard import-weighted average tariff understates the TRI, defined as the uniform tariff that yields the same welfare loss as the...
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This paper describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the year 2001, disaggregated by Harmonized System (HS), Standard International Trade Classification (SITC), and the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) categories. In...
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) 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 …
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