The Economic Impacts of the US-China Trade War
Working Paper 29315
DOI 10.3386/w29315
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In 2018, the US launched a trade war with China, an abrupt departure from its historical leadership in integrating global markets. By late 2019, the US had imposed tariffs on roughly $350 billion of Chinese imports, and China had retaliated on $100 billion US exports. Economists have used a diversity of data and methods to assess the impacts of the trade war on the US, China and other countries. This article reviews what we have learned to date from this work.
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Pablo D. Fajgelbaum & Amit K. Khandelwal, 2022. "The Economic Impacts of the US–China Trade War," Annual Review of Economics, vol 14(1). citation courtesy of