ongoing since the early 2010s. The main focus is on the US’s Safeguard tariffs that were instigated in early 2018. The paper … argues that the aim was to counteract the predatory pricing policies that have been made possible due to China’s extensive … factors: such as the ocean of related trade policy events that preceded and followed the US Safeguard tariffs, or the …

domestic import substitution and trade diversion policies in Input-Output schemes. We found that allowing sectors and countries …

trade policy - particularly the tariffs placed on imports from China - on importers, consumers, and exporters. We start by … documenting that the tariffs were almost fully passed through to total prices paid by importers, suggesting the tariffs' incidence … several large multi-national retailers, we demonstrate that the impact of the tariffs on retail prices is more mixed. Some …

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

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 …

In this paper we demonstrate the importance of distinguishing capital goods tariffs from other tariffs. Using exposure … reduction in intermediate and consumption input or output tariffs do not significantly increase their investment rates. However …, firms' investment rate increase strongly in response to a reduction in capital goods input tariffs. Firms do not substitute …

effects of reducing tariffs and simultaneously replacing lost tariff revenues with revenues from consumption tax. It concludes …

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. …

Are retaliatiory tariffs politically targeted and, if so, are they effective? Do countries designing a retaliation … escalation between the US, China, the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) countries to answer … was optimally chosen using a novel simulation approach constructing counterfactual retaliation responses. For China and …