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Exporters to US paying only 5% of Trump’s tariffs – ECB research

Data shows stateside consumers bearing brunt of costs from levies on imports

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New research from the European Central Bank shows exporters are passing on most of the costs of president Donald Trump’s tariffs to US consumers.

In a bulletin published today (March 30), authors Stefan Schaefer, Lisa Gerland and Marcel Tirpák show that a 10% increase in the levies implies a 9.5% increase in prices for US consumers. 

They note that although the pass-through is “significantly lower when looking at specific factors”, there were no major differences between the US’s largest trading

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