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One Year of Tariff Analysis: What We Got Right, What Changed, and What We Learned
13+ hour, 39+ min ago (686+ words) Retrospective estimates of the consumer price impacts of 2025 tariffs (between 0.5% and 1%) are lower than what the Budget Lab initially estimated last April (2.3%). Just over 40% of this discrepancy can be explained by the nature of State of Tariff analysis: we assume…...
Introducing the Tariff Rate Tracker: An Open-Source Tool for Daily Effective Tariff Rates
10+ hour, 28+ min ago (243+ words) Over the last year, tariff policy has changed dozens of times, making tracking the statutory rate'either overall or for a specific product'very difficult. Today, TBL is releasing an open-source tool that uses public government data to create daily product-by-country tariff…...
State of U.S. Tariffs: February 20, 2026
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (843+ words) The Budget Lab (TBL) estimates the effects of all US tariffs and foreign retaliation implemented in 2025 after the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) that President Trump exceeded his authority to invoke the 1977 International Emergency Economic…...