BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Program for \;Trade\, Development and Political Economy welcomes \;Davin Chor from Dartmouth College.In 2018-2019\, the U.S. imposed a broad swathe of Section 301 tariffs that affected around two-thi rds of the U.S.’s imports from China. Less well-known is the fact that U.S .-based companies could seek exemptions from these tariffs under an admini strative process managed by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. U sing data on the set of applications for exemptions\, we document the exte nt of these exclusions (they were non-trivial)\, and explore what explains successful exclusion requests (importantly\, whether the firm engaged in lobbying on trade issues). We develop and calibrate a “protection for sale ” model in which firms reveal information about their dependence on import s from China as grounds for seeking a tariff exemption. We use this to ass ess the welfare implications of a tariff policy design that incorporates t he possibility of exclusions.Chor is an associate professor in economics g roup at Tuck School of Business and a chair in Dartmouth’s academic cluste r on globalization\, which studies the far-reaching repercussions of globa lization on world markets\, governments\, trade and society. Professor Cho r’s current research focuses on international trade and political economy. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (N BER) and a fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (AB FER). He presently serves as an associate editor at the Journal of Interna tional Economics\, Review of International Economics\, Journal of Comparat ive Economics\, and as a co-editor at Economic Inquiry. DTEND:20240923T210500Z DTSTAMP:20260513T110727Z DTSTART:20240923T194500Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Davin Chor: Exclusions for Sale? Tariff Exemptions in the US-China Trade War UID:RFCALITEM639142528479729608 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Program for \;Trade\, Development a nd Political Economy welcomes \;Davin Chor from Dartmouth College.

In 2018-2019\, the U.S. imposed a broad swathe of Section 301 tar iffs that affected around two-thirds of the U.S.’s imports from China. Les s well-known is the fact that U.S.-based companies could seek exemptions f rom these tariffs under an administrative process managed by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Using data on the set of applications for exemptions\, we document the extent of these exclusions (they were non-tri vial)\, and explore what explains successful exclusion requests (important ly\, whether the firm engaged in lobbying on trade issues). We develop and calibrate a “protection for sale” model in which firms reveal information about their dependence on imports from China as grounds for seeking a tar iff exemption. We use this to assess the welfare implications of a tariff policy design that incorporates the possibility of exclusions.
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Chor is an associate professor in economics group at Tuck Schoo l of Business and a chair in Dartmouth’s academic cluster on globalization \, which studies the far-reaching repercussions of globalization on world markets\, governments\, trade and society. Professor Chor’s current resear ch focuses on international trade and political economy. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER). He presently serves as an associate editor at the Journal of International Econ omics\, Review of International Economics\, Journa l of Comparative Economics\, and as a co-editor at Economic In quiry.

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