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Detecting Tariff Effects on Consumer Prices in Real Time – Part II
Major changes in U.S. trade policy last year have led to a surge of interest in the timely assessment of the economic effects of tariffs. Minton and Somale (2025) developed a methodology to detect tariff effects on consumer prices in real time that relies solely on publicly available data.
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Mind the Gap: Announced versus Implied Tariff Rates in Recent Trade Policy Episodes
In the past year, the U.S. has raised its tariffs on trading partners to a historic level. The tariff rate implied by actual tariff payments owed by importers, however, falls short of the tariff rate implied by announced policies (Gopinath and Neiman, 2026).