A prominent explanation for why trade is not free is politicians' desire to protect some of their constituents at the … method implies that redistributive trade protection accounts for a significant fraction of US tariff variation and causes …

-available trade data and the values of trade and migration elasticities. They have an intuitive interpretation in terms of underlying …

We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during … economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus on the recent U.S.-China trade war. We discuss methods used to evaluate … its effects, describe its economic effects, and analyze if this increase in trade protectionism reverted the effects of …

irrelevant, there is no need for trade agreements - free trade is the optimal policy for each country. But under even minimal … deviations from that benchmark, trade agreements matter. We focus on environments in which there are market failures, technology … domestic contracts and a key determinant of the feasibility and consequences of agreements. With endogenous technology, trade …

This survey reviews the broad changes in U.S. trade policy over the course of the nation's history. Import tariffs have … been the main instrument of trade policy and have had three main purposes: to raise revenue for the government, to restrict … imports and protect domestic producers from foreign competition, and to reach reciprocity agreements that reduce trade …

Britain's repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 was the signature trade policy event of the nineteenth century. This paper … income distribution, international trade and the terms of trade, and economic welfare based on a detailed input-output matrix … negligibly (0.1 percent) lower, as the static efficiency gains are offset by the adverse terms-of-trade effects of the tariff …

against patent-infringing imports entering the United States may be filed before the International Trade Commission (ITC) or …

A primary function of trade policy is to restrict imports to benefit the targeted domestic sector. However, a well …-established theoretical literature highlights that the form of trade policy (e.g., quotas versus tariffs) can have a significant impact on how … much trade policy affects firms' abilities to price above marginal cost (i.e., market power). The US steel industry …