The Impact of Import Tariffs on U.S. Domestic Prices

Mary Amiti, Sebastian Heise and Noah Kwicklis

No 20190104, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: The United States imposed new import tariffs on about $283 billion of U.S. imports in 2018, with rates ranging between 10 percent and 50 percent. In this post, we estimate the effect of these tariffs on the prices paid by U.S. producers and consumers. We find that the higher import tariffs had immediate impacts on U.S. domestic prices. Our results suggest that the aggregate consumer price index (CPI) is 0.3 percent higher than it would have been without the tariffs.

Keywords: prices; tariffs; imports (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-01-04
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