This paper empirically investigates the impact of tariffs when production is organized in global value chains. Using … tariffs at different stages of the production chain for a broad set of countries and industries. Our results suggest that … tariffs have significant effects on economic outcomes, including on countries and sectors not directly targeted. We find that …

commitments under trade agreements (multilateral and regional agreements) and applied tariffs- what is also known as tariffs … equivalent to a level of tariffs between 1.7 and 8.7 percentage points. …

data on tariffs and trade covering 130 countries. We show that regionalism has delivered limited effective liberalization …

delayed pass-through of tariffs into import prices could cause such prolonged differential import growth. We examine how …

An often-neglected potential negative consequence of tariffs is the impact they may have on the misallocation of factor …-productivity firms to survive, thereby leading to a sub-optimal allocation of resources. This paper explores the impact of tariffs on the … allocation of capital using administrative data from South Africa. We find that tariffs are highly correlated with capital …

This paper aims to examine the effect of reducing the import tariffs of trading partners on total and individual …

non-cooperative policies within a single framework. First, we compare the elasticity of trade flows to import tariffs and … in import tariffs by 1 percentage point reduces imports by around 1.4 percent. Hence the two instruments are not …

that offsetting effects on the newly imposed tariffs were substantial. …