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Tariff Incidence: Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890–1914

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Do domestic consumers or foreign exporters bear the burden of a tariff on imports? This paper uses a unique set of high-frequency (weekly/daily) data on the landed and the duty-inclusive price of raw sugar in New York City from 1890 to 1914 to help provide an answer. Tariff reductions are immediately passed through to consumer prices, but only about 40 percent of tariff increases are passed through. The apparent explanation is the asymmetric response of demand: imports collapse upon a tariff increase but fail to surge after a tariff reduction.

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  • Douglas A. Irwin, 2019. "Tariff Incidence: Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890–1914," National Tax Journal, National Tax Association;National Tax Journal, vol. 72(3), pages 599-616, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ntj:journl:v:72:y:2019:i:3:p:599-616
    DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2019.3.05
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    1. Douglas A. Irwin, 2019. "U.S. Trade Policy in Historical Perspective," NBER Working Papers 26256, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Jorge Rojas-Vallejos & Stephen J. Turnovsky, 2021. "Differential Tariffs and Income Inequality in the United States: Some Evidence from the States," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 32(1), pages 1-35, February.
    3. Fan, Haichao & Gao, Xiang & Zhang, Lina, 2021. "How China's accession to the WTO affects global welfare?," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 69(C).
    4. Sébastien Houde & Wenjun Wang, 2022. "The Incidence of the U.S.-China Solar Trade War," CER-ETH Economics working paper series 22/372, CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research (CER-ETH) at ETH Zurich.

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