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Fiscal, Macroeconomic, and Price Estimates of Tariffs Under Both Non-Retaliation and Retaliation Scenarios

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Former President Trump has put forward a variety of different proposals for broadly raising tariffs across the board.

A tariff is a tax on imports, generally levied at an ad valorem rate on the import’s customs value.

Like all tax policy, tariffs involve trade-offs, and they have both fiscal and macroeconomic implications.

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