How Restrictive is U.S. Trade Policy?
Track tariffs — and the restrictiveness of U.S. trade policy — by source country.
Here I have a description of the tariff actions modeled to construct the statutory tariff rate. Previous visualizations of statutory tariffs remain here.
Trade Data through February 2026. Tariff announcements through April 2nd, 2026.
- Use the Country menu to choose among the top 30 U.S. trading partners, or the All Countries aggregate.
- Use the Tariff Metric menu to switch across measures: TRI, trade-weighted mean tariff, statutory tariff, duties/imports, and total duties (USD).
- Details behind the computation of the tariff metrics are in the paper "How Restrictive is U.S. Trade Policy?"
- Hover over the chart to see country details and associated values.
- The red shaded area highlights periods of tariff escalation.
Here I have a description of the tariff actions modeled to construct the statutory tariff rate. Previous visualizations of statutory tariffs remain here.
Trade Data through February 2026. Tariff announcements through April 2nd, 2026.
Data Sources: US Census International Trade Data (via API)
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