In 2018, the United States launched a trade war with China, marking an abrupt departure
from its historical leadership in integrating global markets. By late 2019, the United States …

This chapter reviews a recent body of theoretical and empirical work that studies the
normative and positive aspects of trade policy. We start by presenting reduced-form …

The US-China trade war created net export opportunities rather than simply shifting trade
across destinations. Many “bystander” countries grew their exports of taxed products into the …

The Trump administration changed US trade policy toward China in ways that will take years
for researchers to sort out. This paper makes four specific contributions to that research …

Since the beginning of 2018, the United States has undertaken unprecedented tariff
increases, with one goal of these actions being to boost the manufacturing sector. In this …

This paper studies the impact of the US-China tariff war on China, using high-frequency
night lights data and grid-level measures of tariff exposure. Exploiting within-grid variation …

We estimate the ex‐post agricultural trade impacts of retaliatory measures imposed by
foreign countries in response to United States' Section 232 and 301 tariffs using a …

We uncover evidence that the US–China trade war was consequential for voting outcomes
in the 2018 congressional midterm election. Republican House candidates lost support in …

Abstract Despite the “Phase One Deal” agreed on mid-December 2019, bilateral tariffs
between US and China remain at unprecedented high levels, which will have long-lasting …

We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and
China trade relations during the past 20 years. We first discuss the origins of the China …