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American Economic Journal: Economic Policy: Vol. 2 No. 3 (August 2010)
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Trade Restrictiveness and Deadweight Losses from US Tariffs
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Irwin, Douglas A. 2010. "Trade Restrictiveness and Deadweight Losses from US Tariffs."
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy,
2(3): 111-33.
DOI: 10.1257/pol.2.3.111
DOI: 10.1257/pol.2.3.111
Abstract
This paper calculates a trade restrictiveness index, i.e., the uniform
tariff that yields the same welfare loss as an existing tariff structure, for nearly a century of US data. The results show that the average tariff understates the TRI by about 75 percent. The static deadweight loss from US tariffs is about 1 percent of GDP after the Civil War, but falls almost continuously thereafter to less than one-tenth of 1 percent of GDP. Import duties produced an average welfare loss of 40 cents for every dollar of revenue, slightly higher than contemporary estimates of the marginal cost of taxation. (JEL F13, N71, N72)
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Irwin, Douglas A. (Dartmouth College)
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F13: Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
N71: Economic History: Transport, Trade, Energy, Technology, and Other Services: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
N72: Economic History: Transport, Trade, Energy, Technology, and Other Services: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
N71: Economic History: Transport, Trade, Energy, Technology, and Other Services: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
N72: Economic History: Transport, Trade, Energy, Technology, and Other Services: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
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