Seven Questions About Tariffs That Everyone Should Know
MIT RES.14-004 Seven Questions About Tariffs That Everyone Should Know the Answer To, IAP 2026
Instructor: Arnaud Costinot
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It is hard to predict what US tariffs will look like in a few months, or even in a few weeks from now. But there are many questions about tariffs that can be answered through a combination of theory and data. This lecture discusses seven that everyone should know the answers to.
Question #1: What Is (Always) Bad About Tariffs? (05:16)
Question #2: What is (Potentially) Good About Tariffs? (13:22)
Question #3: Should a Country (Sometimes) Use Tariffs? (28:15)
Question #4: How Do We Know Whether (a Particular Set of) Tariffs Are Good or Bad? (43:08)
Question #5: What Was the Impact of the 2018–2019 Trade War? (46:59)
Question #6: Are Global Tariffs Unfair to the United States? (56:56)
Question #7: What Is (Really) Bad about Trade Wars? (1:02:27)
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