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 … is mainly driven by their different import structures and product heterogeneity in tariff pass-through. China mainly …

The WTO's plurilateral Information Technology Agreement (ITA) reduced tariffs to zero on many IT products. This paper … time in trade literatures. Inserting tariffs directly into the gravity equation breaks the ITAs impact down into four … layers. Import demand elasticities are found to be non-linear: Tariff reduction (layer 1) has relatively small impacts, while …

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 …

We investigate the extent to which the effect of the 2018/2019 US import tariff hikes on US (post-tariff) import prices … that offsetting effects on the newly imposed tariffs were substantial. …