Very happy to see my joint paper with Lisa Scheckenhofer and @feodorateti.bsky.social on sanction evasion for military goods published in this year's AEA P&P: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Scenarios:
🔁 Symmetric — U.S. raises and lowers tariffs to match partner levels
📈 Upward-only — U.S. raises tariffs only where its own are lower
💥 Flat 25% — Uniform 25% tariff on all imports

What if the U.S. adjusted its tariffs on Germany and Switzerland to match what those countries charge?
This NZZ chart by @florianseliger.bsky.social &
@jonasoesch.ch shows how U.S. tariffs would rise under 3 "reciprocity" scenarios using my data from the Global Tariff Database
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@cesifo.org @tradediversion.bsky.social @chadbown.bsky.social

🔴 CAVEAT: The Global Tariff Database only includes applied MFN and preferential tariffs.

This means that recent trade war tariffs (since the first Trump administration), safeguards, anti-dumping tariffs, and any other types of tariffs are NOT included.

Even more importantly: This matters! I show that existing estimates of the trade elasticity are highly sensitive to tariff mismeasurement.

Big difference, right? Want to know how it's done? The details are in my paper: Teti (2024). 🔗www.cesifo.org/en/publications/2024/wor...

Now compare that to this cleaned version from the Global Tariff Database:

Finding clean data on tariffs is hard. Take Mexican import tariffs on U.S. products as an example—here’s what you get from WITS:

🚨New data alert!

A beta version of the Global Tariff Database is now available! 🔗https://feodorateti.github.io

🔎If you're looking for cross-country data on bilateral tariffs, this might help you.

Journal of International Economics Summer School 2025 CESifo is delighted to announce that we will host the Journal of International Economics (JIE) Summer School from 16 - 18 July 2025. The local academic hosts are Claudia Steinwender (LMU Munich), Cars...

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www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...