The Investment Cost of the U.S.-China Trade War

Mary Amiti, Sang Hoon Kong and David Weinstein

No 20200528, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: Starting in early 2018, the U.S. government imposed tariffs on over $300 billion of U.S. imports from China, increasing the average tariff rate from 2.7 percent to 17.5 percent. Much of the escalation in tariffs occurred in the second and third quarters of 2019. In response, the Chinese government retaliated, increasing the average tariff applied on U.S. exports from 5.7 percent to 20.4 percent. Our new study finds that the trade war reduced U.S. investment growth by 0.3 percentage points by the end of 2019, and is expected to shave another 1.6 percentage points off of investment growth by the end of 2020. In this post, we review our study of the trade war’s effect on U.S. investment.

Keywords: protection; event studies; adjustment costs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E2 F00 F4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-05-28
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