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. …

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 …

This paper provides an economic analysis of the trade conflict between the US and China, providing an overview of the … conflict, based both on empirics (ex post analysis) and on simulations (ex ante analysis). Bilateral tariffs have increased on … average to 17% between the US and China, and the Phase One Agreement signed in January 2020 between the two countries only …

tariffs in the range of 14 percent for the U.S. to 43 percent for China, and tend to increase unemployment and income …-generating tariffs to study the aggregate and distributional consequences of tariff wars in a unified framework. Motivated by the 2018 …, China and the Rest of the World. If governments maximize aggregate welfare, the average optimal tariff and the average Nash …

interventions are import tariffs and production subsidies, both of which are, in general, costly. Tariffs on foreign producers … years, has relied on both import tariffs and production subsidies to support the domestic solar module manufacturing … costs associated with production subsidies and much larger costs associated with import tariffs. Specifically, in our main …

, unlike other import tariffs, AD duties are not absorbed by exporters. The results on firms' average markups also suggest that …

. We calibrate such a model to China’s trade with the rest of the world and explore two country tariff games using 2005 …