2018-2019 China tariffs and Market Facilitation Program payments
Closed· $23,000,000,000
USDA Market Facilitation Program payments to U.S. farmers harmed by retaliatory Chinese tariffs totalled about $23 billion ($8.6 billion in 2018, $14.4 billion in 2019), within an authorized package of up to $28 billion. Federal Reserve and academic studies (Amiti, Redding, Weinstein, NBER 25672, 2019; Fajgelbaum, Goldberg, Kennedy, Khandelwal, QJE, 2020) found nearly full pass-through of the tariffs to U.S. importers and consumers.
Measurable outcome
U.S. taxpayers funded about $23 billion in Market Facilitation Program payments while peer-reviewed studies found nearly full tariff pass-through to U.S. importers and consumers.
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Sources
- GAO-22-104259, USDA Market Facilitation Program
- CRS Report IF11289
- Amiti, Redding, Weinstein, NBER Working Paper 25672 (2019)
- Fajgelbaum, Goldberg, Kennedy, Khandelwal, Quarterly Journal of Economics (2020)
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