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US-China Trade War Hurt American Industries, Workers
May 13, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In light of high inflation and rising prices, the Biden administration announced it’s considering dropping its current tariffs on Chinese imports to ease inflationary pressures. The tariffs have indeed hurt both U.S. industry and workers. Another consequence of the U.S. imposed tariffs is that they invited retaliatory tariffs, primarily from China, on U.S.

Tariffs and the Trade War: Tax Foundation Analysis
April 4, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Key Findings The Trump administration imposed nearly $80 billion worth of new taxes on Americans by levying tariffs on thousands of products, which is equivalent to one of the largest tax increases in decades. Based on 2021 import levels and country exemptions, the tariffs amounted to a $52.6 billion tax increase in 2021.

Biden Tariffs & Trade Agenda Should End Trade War, Promote Free Trade
March 30, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares After the failed approach of the Trump administration’s tariffs and trade war along with the current need to reduce inflation and increase productive capacity, we hoped the administration would reevaluate the tariffs. But under the Biden administration’s new trade policy agenda, most U.S. businesses will continue facing tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth

10 Tax Reforms for Economic Growth and Opportunity
February 22, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Key Findings The waning pandemic and robust economic recovery have come with many benefits—plentiful jobs and fast-growing (nominal) incomes—but also serious challenges such as high and rising inflation. Rather than pushing for more fiscal stimulus or leaving it to the Federal Reserve to handle inflation through higher interest rates, policymakers should focus on

Who Really Pays Tariffs? Trump-Biden Tariffs & Trade
December 9, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares When the Trump administration imposed tariffs on various imports in 2018, the stated purpose was to boost U.S. industries and punish foreign exporters. But rather than hurting foreign exporters, the economic evidence shows it is American firms and consumers hardest hit by the Trump tariffs. The tariffs resulted in higher prices for a

Trump-Biden Tariffs Hurt Domestic Manufacturing
December 1, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Boosting American industry is a policy objective shared by many lawmakers and is a key issue at debate in the Build Back Better Act as well as other year-end legislation. Missing from the debates is how the tariffs put in place by the Trump administration, and largely maintained by the Biden administration, are

Repealing Tariffs Would Be a Simple Option to Boost Economic Growth
June 1, 2021
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Of the many tax policies modeled in our new Options for Reforming America’s Tax Code 2.0, repealing the tariffs imposed under President Trump’s administration would be one of the simplest ways policymakers could boost economic growth. Starting in 2018, the U.S. imposed tariffs on a variety of goods, including aluminum, solar panels, steel,