Explore how tariff scenarios and different elasticity assumptions affect US imports and tariff revenue.
Foreign tariffs reduce import demand directly and also affect the world-price term. Tariff revenue is shown as a share of the $4.92 trillion in US federal receipts recorded for FY2024. Biden-era / COVID uses the General Rate column from Covid_Biden.csv; the announced-rates option uses the Liberation Day file's Column 2 Rate of Duty values as the proposed high-rate scenario. Citation: Boehm, Levchenko, and Pandalai-Nayar (2023), “The Long and Short (Run) of Trade Elasticities,” American Economic Review 113 (4): 861–905.