product-level tariff pass-through and show that a higher ratio of import demand elasticity over export supply elasticity leads …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 …

-intensive manufacturing industries. The nature of the impact of the heightened Chinese import tariffs on GVC firms' sourcing suggests a rise …-destination pairs, we show that increased Chinese import protection in the US has a significant positive impact on Mexican firms' trade … product offerings of Mexican GVC firms in response to the heightened Chinese import protection in the US, suggesting increased …

until May 2019, we employ a difference-in-differences estimation framework. Doing so, we (1) can confirm previous findings … showing a strong negative direct effect of US tariffs on US imports from China, but (2) do not find evidence for significant …

Trade costs such as applied tariffs, transportation and insurance costs are amplified as they pass through the multiple …

Many studies use tariffs to measure changes in trade policy. This paper shows that standard sources for tariffs suffer … from substantial measurement error due to misreporting and the resulting false imputation: Countries fail to report tariffs … every year and missing data are more prevalent for preferential than for most favored nation (MFN) tariffs. WITS, the main …

The trade war initiated by the Trump administration is the largest since the US imposed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs in the …. Our results highlight the political salience of the trade war: US trade war tariffs boosted Trump’s support but foreign … retaliation hurt Trump. In particular, the pro-Trump effects of US trade war tariffs were crucial for Trump crossing the recount …