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The Production Relocation and Price Effects of US Trade Policy: The Case of Washing Machines
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We estimate the price effect of US import restrictions on washers. The 2012 and 2016 antidumping duties against South Korea and China were accompanied by downward or minor price movements along with production relocation to other export platform countries. With the 2018 tariffs, on nearly all source countries, the price of washers increased nearly 12 percent. Interestingly, the price of dryers—not subject to tariffs—increased by an equivalent amount. Factoring in dryer prices and price increases by domestic brands, the 2018 tariffs on washers imply a tariff elasticity of consumer prices of above one. (JEL F13, F14, F23, L68, 019, P33)
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“These findings reflect a third-country effect from trade policy that has been discussed in various works by Bagwell and Staiger (see Bagwell, Bown and Staiger 2016, for a review).”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 2 A Simple Model of Production Relocation, Prices, and Tariffs
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Section 5.2, “PTAs and Third-Country Externalities” (page not provided), reviews evidence that trade policies can affect third countries. Its conclusion says the potential for such effects is real, though they are not a consistent feature of existing PTAs. The citation supports the reference to this effect as a topic of review; it does not establish the citing authors’ interpretation of their own findings. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“We find that in response to the 2018 tariffs on nearly all source countries, the price of washers rose by nearly 12 percent; the price of dryersa complementary good not subject to tariffs-increased by an equivalent amount.”
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“Moreover, we show that prices of a complementary good-clothes dryers-also jumped at the same time by a similar magnitude, despite the fact that these products were not subject to any new tariffs during this period.”
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“Although China accounted for a whopping 80 percent of washing machine imports into the United States prior to the application of tariffs, we find that there was very little effect on retail prices from these 2016 China-specific tariffs.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 1 Introduction
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“This time, imports of washing machines produced in Thailand and Vietnam (the purple and yellow lines in Figure 2a) increased sharply, from essentially zero in 2015 to nearly 3.3 million units (combined) in 2017.”
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“Although China accounted for a whopping 80 percent of washing machine imports into the United States prior to the application of tariffs, we find that there was very little effect on retail prices from these 2016 China-specific tariffs.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 1 Introduction
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“Our estimates of the tariff elasticity of consumer prices for the country-specific antidumping duties on Chinese production, though positive, are quite small.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 1 Introduction
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“The 12 months after the China antidumping duties saw a decline of about the same magnitude -roughly 5 percent.”
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“Our estimates indicate that the safeguard tariffs raised the median price of washing machines and clothes dryers by about 86 USD and 92 USD per unit, respectively.”
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“Contemporaneous with the drop in imports from Korea (and to a lesser extent, Mexico) was a substantial increase in imports from China (the red line in Figure 2a).”
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“Perhaps surprisingly, the 2012 antidumping duties against Korea led to relocation of production to China, actually resulting in lower washer prices in the United States.”
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“The result of these antidumping duties, first on Mexican/Korean production in 2012 and later on Chinese production in 2016, was a shift in production to other countries while keeping the overall magnitude of U.S. imports roughly the same.”
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“according to research on the effects of this merger in Ashenfelter, Hosken and Weinberg (2013), Whirlpool and Maytag together (pre-merger) accounted for 60 percent of total revenue for washing machines, and 65 percent for clothes dryers.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 3 Import Restrictions and Changes in Trade Flows
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“Using Belgian manufacturing data, Amiti, Itskhoki and Konings (2016) document that large firms respond to competitors cost changes induced by exchange rate changes.”
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- Supportedcites Amiti, Itskhoki and Konings (2016) source
The Introduction says the study uses competitors’ cost shocks to identify firms’ price responses and finds similar results when it uses import-weighted exchange rates as instruments. Section 3.2 reports strong strategic complementarities in price setting among large firms; Section 4.3 shows their markup responses to exchange-rate shocks depend on the costs and prices of competitors. The claim is a fair paraphrase of that mechanism. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Imports subsequently fell sharply in February and March of 2018, rising again through September 2018 just before the quota limit of 1.2 million imported units was reached and subsequent tariffs rose to 50 percent.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 3.2 The Global Safeguards Investigation
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“Conversely, the index jumped in the months following the section 201 safeguard tariffs and was up by about 9 percent by February 2019.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 1 Introduction
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“In February 2012, the USITC issued a ruling that recommended antidumping measures; in July of that year, the Commerce Department announced import duties ranging from 9.2 to 82.4 percent on several firms (Department of Commerce (2012)).”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 3.1 Antidumping Investigations
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- Not matchedcites Department of Commerce (2012)
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“Factoring in the effect of dryers and price increases by domestic brands, our estimates for the 2018 tariffs on washers imply a tariff elasticity of consumer prices of between 110 and 230 percent.”
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“We find a much higher tariff elasticity of consumer prices for the global 2018 safeguard tariffs; once accounting for the effect on dryers prices, our estimates imply a pass-through to consumer prices of these safeguard tariffs of between 107 and 226 percent.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > Abstract
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“According to Commodity Status Reports published by the U.S. Customs Bureau, the quota limit on washers was reached on October 22, 2018.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 3.2 The Global Safeguards Investigation
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“Exports of parts to China jump in 2013 and 2014 before falling back in 2016 and 2017 as exports of parts to Thailand and Vietnam rise.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 3.1 Antidumping Investigations
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“The result of these antidumping duties, first on Mexican/Korean production in 2012 and later on Chinese production in 2016, was a shift in production to other countries while keeping the overall magnitude of U.S. imports roughly the same.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 1 Introduction
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“In February 2016, the USITC issued another ruling in favor of antidumping measures, and final antidumping duties announced by the Commerce Deparmtent ranged from 38.4 percent (LG) to 57.4 percent (Samsung) (Department of Commerce (2016)).”
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- Not matchedcites Department of Commerce (2016)
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“In the 12 months following the Korea/Mexico antidumping duties, the CPI for laundry equipment actually declined by about 5 percent and continued falling thereafter.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 1 Introduction
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“For example, we find either flat or increasing unit values of imported washers from Korea in response to the antidumping duties in 2012, but domestic prices in the United States fell as foreign production relocated to China.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 1 Introduction
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“In addition, overall Korean washing machine parts exports (not shown) rise nearly 60 percent between 2010 and 2016, a fact consistent with the reduced amount of parts used in Korea for washing machine production for export.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 3.1 Antidumping Investigations
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“which together account for more than 50 percent of the observations in the data.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.1 Data and Price Trends of Washers and Dryers
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“Maytag raised washer prices by about 14 percent and dryer prices between 17 to 20 percent.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.2 Estimating the Price Effects of Washing Machine Import Restrictions
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“A surprising feature of the results presented in section 4.2 is that dryers-excluded from any tariffs during this period-experienced price changes that were nearly identical to that of washers.This is true in the aggregate (Figure 1) as well as for each brand separately (Table 2).”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.4 The Response in the Price of Dryers
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“Multiplying these estimates by the median pre-period price of washers (749 USD per unit) and dryers (809 USD per unit) yields the dollar increase in price attributable to these tariffs on washers and dryers was 86 USD per unit and 92 USD per unit, respectively.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.2 Estimating the Price Effects of Washing Machine Import Restrictions
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“Finally, the estimates for the section 201 safeguard tariffs are considerably higher: 1.25 to 2.26 using the trade weighted average tariff increase, or 0.57 to 1.07 if we only use the maximum possible rate.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.5 Implications for the Tariff Elasticity of Consumer Prices
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“LG raised prices over four months by eight percent and over 8 months by about 13 percent for both washers and dryers.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.2 Estimating the Price Effects of Washing Machine Import Restrictions
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“As shown in Appendix Figure A7, the Pearson rank correlation of sales for a brand's washer and dryers at a given retailer is quite high, 0.9 to 0.95, depending on the retailer, and typically lower, 0.3 to 0.9, for other appliances pairs.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.4 The Response in the Price of Dryers
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“For example, it appears that refrigerator prices (Figure 5a) were growing differentially from ranges before and after July 2016.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.2 Estimating the Price Effects of Washing Machine Import Restrictions
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“For ranges, the Chinese import share was about 10 percent, and hence the increase in the effective tariff rate was less than one percentage point.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.2 Estimating the Price Effects of Washing Machine Import Restrictions
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“For example, from July 2014 to January 2018 (shortly before the introduction of the safeguard tariffs in February 2018), the Gap Intelligence data suggests a decline in washer prices of about 20 percent and a decline in the price of dryers of about 7 percent.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.1 Data and Price Trends of Washers and Dryers
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“Appendix Table A9 replicates our baseline results from Table 1 but for all brands, brick-and-mortar retailers, and where each retailer receives a weight corresponding to the number of brick-and-mortar stores in the U.S. The results are robust, with the price effect of both the China antidumping and Safeguard tariffs increasing somewhat”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.3 Robustness
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“Samsung increased prices by 15 to 17 percent for washers and about 10 percent for dryers.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.2 Estimating the Price Effects of Washing Machine Import Restrictions
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“Our suggestive estimate for the 2012 antidumping duties against Korea and Mexico indicates a decline in prices, and hence a negative elasticity, consistent with the theory shown in Figure 1c .”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.5 Implications for the Tariff Elasticity of Consumer Prices
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“In columns 3 and 4-when utilizing model fixed effects as controls-the estimates for all four appliances increase and become statistically significant relative to the price levels of ranges.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.2 Estimating the Price Effects of Washing Machine Import Restrictions
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“What is evident in Table 3 is a wide range of this consumer elasticity of tariffs.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.5 Implications for the Tariff Elasticity of Consumer Prices
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“By contrast, and consistent with the preliminary evidence from Figure 5b, the estimated price effects of the Section 201 safeguard tariffs are much more striking.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.2 Estimating the Price Effects of Washing Machine Import Restrictions
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“Depending on the time horizon, Whirlpool increased washer prices between 13 to 17 percent, with dryer prices increasing at least as much.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.2 Estimating the Price Effects of Washing Machine Import Restrictions
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“Figure 3 reveals that unit values decreased following the Korea/Mexico antidumping duties as production relocated to China”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 3.4 The Relation to Import Prices
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“While the imports identified under the Section 201 rate provision code display an applied tariff rate that matches those specified in the statute, the average effective tariff rate across all washer imports is significantly lower.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.5 Implications for the Tariff Elasticity of Consumer Prices
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“There is no clear distinction between domestic and foreign brands in these results, all within a range of 5 and 17 percent.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.2 Estimating the Price Effects of Washing Machine Import Restrictions
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“G.E. had lower price increases of around 7 percent for washers and about 10 percent for dryers.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.2 Estimating the Price Effects of Washing Machine Import Restrictions
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“Prior to these tariffs, the Chinese import share for refrigerators was around 17 percent, leading to an increase in the trade-weighted tariff rate of less than two percentage points.”
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“Hence, the price correlation between these matched models is very high-over 0.95-while the correlation of price changes is 0.82.23”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.4 The Response in the Price of Dryers
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“for 86.3 percent of the matched observations, the washer has exactly the same price as the matching dryer.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.6 Matched Washers and Dryers
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“the steel content of washing machines is indeed quite close to the appliance used as our control of electric/gas ranges (average of 90 lbs vs 127.5 lbs)”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.3 Steel Content of Appliances
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- Not matchedcites Steel Recycling Institute and the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers
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“The other appliances-refrigerators and dishwashers-have steel content that is slightly higher and lower, respectively.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.3 Steel Content of Appliances
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- Not matchedcites Steel Recycling Institute and the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers
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“Although we lack information on such linkages, the main assembly operations of Whirlpool produce in a foreign trade zone (see Appendix B.9), suggesting that imported components are an important piece of their U.S. operations.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.6 An Estimate of the Consumer Cost Per Domestic Job Created
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“Safeguard tariffs 2018 Washers 0.1799*** 0.1464*** 0.1427*** 0.0913* 0.0537*** 0.0807*** 0.1420*** 0.1544*** 0.0885*** 0.0859***”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.9 Foreign Trade Zone Production
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“Safeguard tariffs 2018 Washers 0.0868*** 0.0908*** 0.0843*** 0.1022***”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > C.2 Total Number of Available Models
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“As indicated above, foreign producers advertised new jobs on the order of 1,600 following new production plans in the United States; Whirlpool, on the other hand, indicated they hired 200 additional workers as a result of the safeguard tariffs.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.6 An Estimate of the Consumer Cost Per Domestic Job Created
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“there is an especially tight connection between washers and dryers among the set of appliances for these retailers.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.7 Correlations Using Sales Rank
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“Although prices increase briefly for two of the countries, by the time tariffs are actually assessed (in April/May, see Figure A4c) these prices fall back; averaging between 5 and 10 percent lower than before tariffs were applied.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.8 Changes to Export (to U.S.) Unit Values
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“These numbers are roughly 10 million washing machines and 7.7 million clothes dryers.29”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.6 An Estimate of the Consumer Cost Per Domestic Job Created
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“Prior to the Section 301 tariffs, the Chinese share of total imports for refrigerators, ranges, and dishwashers was 18 percent, 10 percent, and 30 percent, respectively.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.4 Section 301 Tariffs on Other Household Appliances
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“According to data available on their website, calculated duties from February 2018 to January 2019 amounted to just under 82 million USD for washing machines, and about 355,000 USD for washing machine parts.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.6 An Estimate of the Consumer Cost Per Domestic Job Created
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“Interestingly, the figure shows that duties didn't jump until roughly May of 2018, despite the fact that announcements indicated duties would be collected beginning in February.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.2 Application of Section 201 Tariffs
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“Nearly all imports from Vietnam and Thailand were subject to these duties, whereas imports from Korea were only partially affected.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > Figures A4b and A4a
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“Gas dryers are usually priced higher than the electric dryers.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.6 Matched Washers and Dryers
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“Despite the increase in domestic production and employment, the costs of these 2018 tariffs are substantial: in a partial equilibrium setting, we estimate increased annual consumer costs of around 1.5 billion USD, or roughly 820,000 USD per job created.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 5 Conclusion
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“The elasticity based on unit values implies full pass-through (increases) to import prices following the Korea/Mexico antidumping duties, whereas the evidence cited above shows that prices to consumers actually fell during this period.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.5.1 Comparison to Conventional Tariff Pass-Through Calculations
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“As shown in Figure A9a, a large gap emerges between imports for consumption and general imports in 2014; Figure A9b demonstrates that roughly all of this discrepancy owes to a jump in the Cleveland Customs District.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > Additional information
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“Washers Only | N/A | 0.23 | 1.25 | 0.57”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > Figure A21: Total Number of Available Models by Brand
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“Washers | -0.0306 (0.0283) | -0.0345 (0.0360) | 0.1420** 0.1897*** (0.0444) (0.0530) | 0.0098 (0.0387) | -0.0110 (0.0491) | 0.0830* (0.0413) | 0.0573 (0.0498) | -0.0020 (0.0180) | 0.0235 (0.0240) |”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > Figure A21: Total Number of Available Models by Brand
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“Safeguard tariffs 2018 Washers 0.0695*** 0.0807*** 0.0760*** 0.0949*** (0.0114) (0.0137) (0.0096) (0.0095)”
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“Washers | 0.1092*** 0.1151*** 0.1104*** 0.1185*** (0.0138) (0.0181) (0.0111) (0.0118) |”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > C.2 Total Number of Available Models
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“The correlation of average prices across all models within a brand/merchant is 0.87.The washer-dryer correlation of average price changes across all models within a brand/merchant is 0.74.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > Figure A21: Total Number of Available Models by Brand
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“Refrigerators -0.0115 -0.0230* -0.0148** -0.0254*** (0.0079) (0.0108) (0.0049) (0.0053) Dishwashers -0.0023 -0.0073 0.0019 0.0087 (0.0088) (0.0123) (0.0060) (0.0074)”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > C.2 Total Number of Available Models
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“the foreign monopolist switches the production location in response to the tariff and produces in C instead.”
- Also stated in: § 2 A Simple Model of Production Relocation, Prices, and Tariffs · hedged
“Quite interestingly, as a consequence, the prices U.S. consumers would pay for washing machines would fall in response to the import restrictions on K.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 2 A Simple Model of Production Relocation, Prices, and Tariffs
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- The authors state this as an assumption: The fixed cost of foreign production is higher than domestic production.
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“These examples illustrate the importance of analyzing jointly the production and price effects from import restrictions.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 2 A Simple Model of Production Relocation, Prices, and Tariffs
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“These tariff rates went into effect in February 2018 (for washing machines and their component parts) and are scheduled to expire after three years.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 3.2 The Global Safeguards Investigation
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“In 2006, the Whirlpool Corporation (”
- Also stated in: § 3 Import Restrictions and Changes in Trade Flows · plain
“This merger substantially increased the concentration of both washing machines and clothes dryers”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 3 Import Restrictions and Changes in Trade Flows
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“It is important to point out, that the example depicted in Figure 1c would not occur in a competitive market where new firms from country C could enter on their own.In that case, in the absence of tariffs, production would never occur in country K.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 2 A Simple Model of Production Relocation, Prices, and Tariffs
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“In addition, export unit values (measured at the border) may reflect transfer pricing strategies to reduce the costs of tariffs for trade between related parties.They therefore may not accurately characterize the price change faced by consumers.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 1 Introduction
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“Although our sample of microlevel prices does not overlap with the Korea/Mexico antidumping duties, we report evidence -a drop in the unit values from subsequent production in China, along with declines in the CPI index -pointing to a negative pass-through of tariffs and hence increased consumer surplus from these tariffs.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 1 Introduction
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“Production relocation effects, price changes by domestic brands, and price changes of complementary goods all contribute to the differences between these measures.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > Abstract
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“Imported washing machines occupied a small share-less than ten percent-of U.S. sales during this time.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 3 Import Restrictions and Changes in Trade Flows
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“For products subject to antidumping duties, the dutiable value (for Section 201 tariffs) would be the value of the imported product prior to any antidumping duties being assessed.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 3.2 The Global Safeguards Investigation
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“Our findings are also related to work by Ruhl (2014), who finds a large aggregate impact of U.S. antidumping policies.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 2 A Simple Model of Production Relocation, Prices, and Tariffs
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“To summarize, firms shifted production following each new trade policy-first from Mexico/Korea to China, then to Thailand/Vietnam, and finally to the U.S.-to avoid paying import tariffs.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 1 Introduction
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“Canada was excluded, as the final announcement indicated that Canadian imports do not account for a substantial share of the total and do not contribute to the injury identified by the USITC.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 3.2 The Global Safeguards Investigation
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“Transfer pricing motives would typically lead to lower pass-through estimates as firms attempt to lower the tariff / antidumping duties costs by lowering import prices.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 2 A Simple Model of Production Relocation, Prices, and Tariffs
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“As long as the fixed costs of opening a plant in C are sufficiently large, or tariffs on imports from K are sufficiently small, this inequality will still hold resulting in full pass-through of the tariffs to the prices faced by U.S. consumers.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 2 A Simple Model of Production Relocation, Prices, and Tariffs
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- The authors state this as an assumption: The foreign supplier has constant marginal cost in each available production location.
- The authors state this as an assumption: The fixed cost of foreign production is higher than domestic production.
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“Taken together, Figures 2a and 2b are a striking illustration of the changes in supply chains induced by U.S. tariffs.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 3.1 Antidumping Investigations
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“The domestic retail prices reflect the impacts of tariffs on domestic competitors, production relocation, and complementary goods, while unit values from trade data would miss these channels.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 1 Introduction
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“The Section 201 safeguard tariffs are imposed in addition to the standard MFN rates under Chapter 84 of the tariff schedule (which, in 2019, were 1 percent for washing machines).”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 3.2 The Global Safeguards Investigation
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“However, under sufficiently high import tariffs against country C, the producer obtains higher profits from producing in country V instead.This leads to an increase in the domestic price by p V -p C ≤ τ .”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 2 A Simple Model of Production Relocation, Prices, and Tariffs
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- The authors state this as an assumption: The foreign supplier has constant marginal cost in each available production location.
- The authors state this as an assumption: In the Figure 1b example, the fixed cost to establish production in countries C and V is the same.
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“On the other hand, as we show below in Figure 4, the CPI for laundry equipment declines considerably just after the production relocation from Korea/Mexico to China in mid-2012-consistent with the negative pass-through interpretation of the changes in unit values.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 3.4 The Relation to Import Prices
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“As this introduces large measurement error in products' ages in dates near March 2013 and we find particularly strong price discounts of appliances in the first few months, we start our price analysis from mid-July 2014 onward.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.1 Data and Price Trends of Washers and Dryers
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“We include refrigerators and dishwashers in the analysis as placebo effects-a check for the plausibility of our estimates.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.2 Estimating the Price Effects of Washing Machine Import Restrictions
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“third and more complicated issue arises from identifying the price impacts of complementary goods not subject to tariffs.Even when these products would be included in a pass-through regression, the impacts to import prices would likely not be reflected in the α 1 coefficient from equation (5).”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.5 Implications for the Tariff Elasticity of Consumer Prices
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“As mentioned above, the quota of 1.2 million units subject to the lower additional tariff rate was reached in October 2018, and all relevant units thereafter paid a higher rate of 50 percent.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.5 Implications for the Tariff Elasticity of Consumer Prices
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“For the Section 201 safeguard case, there were a number of product-level exclusions (within HS-10 codes), but we are unable to identify these excluded products in the retail price data (see Appendix B.2).”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.5 Implications for the Tariff Elasticity of Consumer Prices
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“A second complication relates to the fact that the Section 201 safeguard measure was a tariff-rate quota, and therefore exhibits multiple tariff rates during the sample period we study.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.5 Implications for the Tariff Elasticity of Consumer Prices
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“Indeed, as shown by Pierce (2011) protected domestic plants from antidumping duties tend to exhibit increased prices and markups, with physical productivity actually falling.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.2 Estimating the Price Effects of Washing Machine Import Restrictions
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Pierce (2011) source
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“An LG Electronic factory in Clarksville, Tennessee, is scheduled for a late 2018 or early 2019 opening, with an advertised creation of roughly 600 new jobs (LG Electronics (2017)).”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 3.3 Onshoring of U.S. Production
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- Not matchedcites LG Electronics (2017)
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“The focus on the overall prices paid by consumers-made possible by our data-and adjustment for the share of domestic production facing no tariff changes (the M C,t-1 D C,t-1 term in the denominator) ensures that the measure reflects an overall elasticity for products consumed.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.5 Implications for the Tariff Elasticity of Consumer Prices
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“Included in what was a third round of tariffs imposed on Chinese imports (from the Section 301 provision of U.S. trade law intended to penalize unfair trade practices) were refrigerators and electric/gas ranges; household dishwashers were not subject to new tariffs.”
- Also stated in: § 4.2 Estimating the Price Effects of Washing Machine Import Restrictions · plain
“These tariffs went into effect in September (roughly t = 28 in Figure 5b) at a rate of 10 percent.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.2 Estimating the Price Effects of Washing Machine Import Restrictions
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- Also stated in: § 4.2 Estimating the Price Effects of Washing Machine Import Restrictions · plain
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“The ultimate result of these measures, however, was a jump in the domestic prices of steel and aluminum-which together represent a significant input cost in U.S. production of washing machines.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.2 Estimating the Price Effects of Washing Machine Import Restrictions
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“The Samsung factory in Newberry, South Carolina opened in January 2018 with plans to produce 1 million washing machines that year”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 3.3 Onshoring of U.S. Production
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- Not matchedcites Samsung (2017)
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“The control category is meant to subtract out other factors that could be influencing consumer prices for product category C during this time period, apart from tariffs.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.5 Implications for the Tariff Elasticity of Consumer Prices
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“Using the rarely invoked”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.2 Estimating the Price Effects of Washing Machine Import Restrictions
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“Finally, measurement from unit values faces the known problem of whether intra-firm transactions reflect prices that are relevant for ultimate consumers.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.5 Implications for the Tariff Elasticity of Consumer Prices
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“These rates reset in February 2019, where the statutory rates decline to 18 percent (in quota) and 45 percent (out of quota).”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.5 Implications for the Tariff Elasticity of Consumer Prices
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“From the investigation documents, we learn that the respondents (LG and Samsung) requested these excluded articles be included within the scope of the investigation, whereas Whirlpool and G.E. urged against amending the scope (see USITC 2017, page 9).”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.2 Application of Section 201 Tariffs
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- Not matchedcites USITC 2017
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“Typically the differences in the data between these two definitions are small and reflect idiosyncratic timing in customs clearance as well as time spend in temporary storage in bonded warehouses.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.9 Foreign Trade Zone Production
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“Among these excluded products were stacked washer-dryers, commercial washers, and the following presumably specialty washers:”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.2 Application of Section 201 Tariffs
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“The additional rates applied to these goods was substantially smaller (only 10 percent) than other trade provisions put into place in 2018.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.4 Section 301 Tariffs on Other Household Appliances
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“According to research by Grant (2017), foreign trade zones account for roughly one-sixth of U.S. manufacturing value-added, and one-eighth of the value of U.S. imports.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.9 Foreign Trade Zone Production
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- Not matchedcites Grant (2017)
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“If the finished product of an FTZ enters the United States for domestic consumption, then the firm must then pay duties on the value of the imported parts.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.9 Foreign Trade Zone Production
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“There are a number of other factors that could be added to this analysis; unfortunately, data limitations prevent a full treatment on all of these channels.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.6 An Estimate of the Consumer Cost Per Domestic Job Created
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“based on standard errors clustered by model.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > C.2 Total Number of Available Models
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“In general, any imported good will be recorded twice: first as a”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.9 Foreign Trade Zone Production
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“Hufbauer, Lowry et al. (2012) calculate such a metric from the section 421 tariffs on Chinese tire imports, finding a cost of roughly 900,000 USD per job.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.6 An Estimate of the Consumer Cost Per Domestic Job Created
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- Not matchedcites Hufbauer, Lowry et al. (2012)
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“This number is of the same order of magnitude as other similar exercises.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.6 An Estimate of the Consumer Cost Per Domestic Job Created
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“All these calculations are made in partial equilibrium.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > 4.6 An Estimate of the Consumer Cost Per Domestic Job Created
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“the FTZ firm is allowed to choose whether they pay the tariff rate of the finished product (washing machine) or the imported components (various washing machine parts).”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.9 Foreign Trade Zone Production
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“Created at the request of a U.S. firm to the U.S. Department of Commerce, a manufacturing facility in an FTZ operates outside of the customs border of the United States.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.9 Foreign Trade Zone Production
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“Among the set of products included under the third round of Section 301 tariffs against Chinese goods put into place in September 2018 were household refrigerators and gas/electric stoves and ranges.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.4 Section 301 Tariffs on Other Household Appliances
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“This description makes clear that these additional inclusions are better described as sub-assemblies of washers than indivisible parts.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > B.5 Tariffs on Washing Machine Parts
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- Not matchedcites USITC 2017
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“We also follow the convention ofAmiti, Redding and Weinstein (2019) and drop observations with a ratio of unit values in t relative to t-12 of greater than 3 or less than 1/3.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > Figure A21: Total Number of Available Models by Brand
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Amiti, Redding and Weinstein (2019) source
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“Standard errors are clustered by model.”
- Also stated in: § C.2 Total Number of Available Models · plain
“The dotted lines denote 95 percent confidence intervals for the coefficient estimates for washers and dryers, based on standard errors clustered by model.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > Figure A21: Total Number of Available Models by Brand
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“Hitsch, Hortacsu and Lin (2017) and DellaVigna and Gentzkow (2017) report evidence suggesting uniform pricing in U.S. retail chains across locations.”
§ NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRODUCTION RELOCATION AND PRICE EFFECTS OF U.S. TRADE POLICY: THE CASE OF WASHING MACHINES > Figure A21: Total Number of Available Models by Brand
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- Not matchedcites Hitsch, Hortacsu and Lin (2017)
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The authors state this as an assumption.
There is a foreign monopolist that supplies washers to the United States.
“We assume that there is a foreign monopolist that supplies washers to the United States.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Consumer preferences for washers imply a constant elasticity of substitution demand function.
“We further assume that consumer preferences for washers lead to a constant elasticity of substitution demand function”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The foreign supplier has constant marginal cost in each available production location.
“and that the foreign supplier has constant marginal cost in each of the available production locations.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The model assumes away domestic producers of washing machines.
“Note that for simplicity we assume away any domestic producers of washing machines, since for the foreign production relocation the existence of domestic producers is not essential, and the graphical analysis below is easier to convey without them.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The importer is a perfectly competitive intermediary that sells washers to U.S. consumers, so no mark-up is added to the tariff.
“For simplicity we assume the importer is a perfectly competitive intermediary who in turn sells the washers to U.S. consumers, so there is no mark-up added to the tariff.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
In the Figure 1b example, the fixed cost to establish production in countries C and V is the same.
“If the fixed cost to establish production in these countries is the same, and there are no import restrictions, the foreign monopolist chooses the production location with the lower marginal cost-here, country C.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The fixed cost of foreign production is higher than domestic production.
“If the foreign monopolist is headquartered in country K, the assumption of higher fixed cost of foreign production is common in the literature on multinational firms (e.g., Brainard (1997), Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2004)).”
The paper relies on this without support.
The Gap Intelligence weekly retailer-product price data are nationally representative of U.S. washer and dryer prices.
“While some heterogeneity in prices across retail locations may exist, the provided weekly retailer-product specific price information is what Gap Intelligence considers the nationally representative price.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The Section 201 ruling contained no country-level exclusions covering China and Mexico.
“Given that the section 201 ruling did not provide for country-level exclusions for these cases”
The paper relies on this without support.
Foreign trade zone production is a quantitatively important part of U.S. washing machine imports.
“One important feature of U.S. imports of washing machines is the use of foreign trade zone (FTZ) production in the United States.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Any linear age effects of washer/dryer models are captured by the model-by-time term in the price regression.
“Note that any linear age effects of washer/dryer models will be captured by the λ C(i)t term.”
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“In the former case, and as some studies have already shown (see Flaaen et al., 2020), production might relocate to (third) countries unaffected by the bilateral trade war rather than being reshored to domestic economies.”
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“The result is an increase of 1.542 billion USD in consumer costs per year.”
“Together, equal to 1.552 billion USD.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Flaaen, A., Hortaçsu, A., & Tintelnot, F.
- Affiliations
- Federal Reserve (US)
- University of Chicago and NBER ()
- National Bureau of Economic Research (US)
- ORCID
- Flaaen, Aaron
- Venue
- American Economic Review
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2020-07-01
- Volume
- 110
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 2103-2127
- ISSN
- 0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2936976074
- Semantic Scholar
- 7126a00c888f59bf3a469675e6820f663b8cf60e
- Cited by
- 287
- References
- 33
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- FWCI
- 47.02
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- en
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- American Economic Review (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › General Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Global trade and economics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Merger and Competition Analysis
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
- Keywords
- United States trade policy, import tariffs, antidumping duties, washing machines, industrial relocation, price effects, South Korea, China, drying equipment, tariff elasticity, export platforms
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