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We estimate the macroeconomic effects of import tariffs and trade policy uncertainty in the United States, combining … persistently, in aggregate and across sectors and space. The general equilibrium import elasticity is -0.8. Historically, NAFTA …
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the Philippines. Regression analysis indicates that tariffs hindered cotton textile exports to the Philippines during the … relied on government-supported lower freight rates. However, after the Yen devaluation in 1931, the effectiveness of tariffs …
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Import tariffs tend to be higher for final goods than for inputs, a phenomenon commonly referred to as tariff …-maximizing tariffs are uniform across sectors. We show that tariff escalation can be rationalized on efficiency grounds in the presence … up the chain for final-good tariffs, input tariffs may drive final-good producers to relocate abroad, mitigating their …
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environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of … challenge to MNEs' subsidiaries' activity and performance than tariffs do. High-tech manufacturing subsidiaries of foreign MNEs …
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When President Trump came into office the US administration launched a detailed analysis of American trade relations. It aimed to identify "unfair trade practices" that are supposedly increasingly being used by other countries, and that are economically damaging to America. This study simulates...
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of a Linear Almost Ideal Demand System introduce the price of import competing goods as a proxy for the average tariff in … tariffs. …
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stock of existing transatlantic retaliatory tariffs and examines three different motives that explain how products are … evaluation of EU tariffs implemented in response to U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs: within one year, imports of treated products …
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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. …
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We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during the last decades. We first discuss the origins of the China shock, its measurement, and present methods used to study its economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus...
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foreign status quo tariffs are low, and in the absence of transfers, the protectionist agenda-setter will offer high tariffs … Restriction" after the Civil War. When the status quo trade policy is high unilateral (and foreign) tariffs, e.g., U.S. 1860 … exporter of capital-intensive manufactures is not sufficient to explain the unilateral imposition of tariffs by the U …
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