This paper provides a welfare comparison of a tariff with a combination of a production subsidy to, and a commodity tax …, including where the initial tariff is above the optimal tariff, where a certain output level of a tariff-imposed commodity must … combination of the production subsidy and the commodity tax and show it to be superior to the tariff from the welfare viewpoint …

Was the collapse of world trade between 1928 and 1937 caused by higher transport costs, increased protectionism or the … average tariff and non-tariff trade barriers remained at their 1928 level, total international trade would have been 64 …

This paper addresses the issue of whether Donald Trump should impose a 35% tariff on the importation of certain goods … from China and Mexico, and presumably other countries. Applying utilitarian ethics leads to the conclusion that the tariff …

Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy … in response to an increased tariff. Moreover, any production gains that occur are biased towards higher cost domestic …

The international discussion of Trump's dispute over import tariffs for steel, aluminum and even cars is so far focused … on the big global players. However, African countries in particular could suffer from the planned punitive tariffs …

This paper presents a new global tariff database covering tariffs at the six-digit product level for 197 importing … data and misreporting, almost doubling the number of available tariffs from 2.9 to 5.7 billion. The improvement in the data … tariffs around the world improving our understanding of how countries set tariffs substantially. …

This paper investigates the link between published tariff rates and realized tariff rates using Indian inter … is difficult to calculate the actual implications of changes in the published tariff rate. …

The international discussion of Trump's dispute over import tariffs for steel, aluminum and even cars is so far focused … on the big global players. However, African countries in particular could suffer too from the planned punitive tariffs …

. In the first quarter of 2002, President Bush imposed tariffs of up to 30 percent on foreign steel producers in many … countries, including those in East Asia. This tariff, which was the result of a finding that some foreign steel companies had … filed protests with the WTO seeking compensation for the tariff and some countries have already taken retaliatory measures …