{"id":96156,"date":"2025-05-12T19:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T19:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/96156\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T19:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T19:55:11","slug":"after-uk-china-trade-deals-tariff-rate-still-highest-since-1934-yale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/96156\/","title":{"rendered":"After UK, China trade deals, tariff rate still highest since 1934: Yale"},"content":{"rendered":"

A cargo ship moors at the container terminal berth of Lianyungang Port for loading and unloading containers in Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, China, on May 9, 2025.<\/p>\n

Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images<\/p>\n

The tariff rate the U.S. puts on imports remains higher than any point since the 1930s, despite trade deals struck with China<\/a> and the United Kingdom<\/a> in recent days, according to a Yale Budget Lab report<\/a> issued Monday.<\/p>\n

The total U.S. average effective tariff rate is 17.8% \u2014 the highest since 1934 \u2014 even after accounting for these policy changes, according to the Yale Budget Lab.<\/p>\n

That’s equivalent to an increase of 15.4 percentage points from the average effective tariff rate before Trump’s second term, the report said.<\/p>\n

Current tariff policies in effect are expected to cost the average household $2,800 over the “short run,” according to the report. It doesn’t specify a time frame.<\/p>\n

China and U.K. trade deals\"Roger<\/p>\n

U.S. officials agreed Monday to slash duties on China to 30% total, down from at least 145%, for 90 days as they continue economic and trade discussions. China dropped its duty on U.S. exports to 10% from 125%.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump also announced a deal with the U.K. on Thursday. While light on specifics, the president confirmed a 10% tariff would remain in place and that the first 100,000 imported U.K. automobiles will be tariffed at 10% rather than 25%, for example.<\/p>\n

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The White House has enacted many other tariffs, including a 10% across-the-board tariff on most U.S. trading partners. There are additional levies tied to specific products like steel, aluminum and automobiles, and certain imports from Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n

Consumers will likely alter their buying<\/p>\n

Prior to the China and U.K. trade pacts, consumers faced an overall average effective tariff rate of 28%, the highest since 1901, the Yale Budget Lab estimated in a prior analysis<\/a> on April 15.<\/p>\n

The estimated decline from that average tariff rate “is almost entirely due to the lower rates on Chinese imports \u2014 the US-UK trade deal has minimal effects on average tariff rates,” its most recent report said.<\/p>\n

Businesses and consumers are likely to change their purchase behavior to avoid the higher costs associated with tariffs, especially from China, according to economists.<\/p>\n

After accounting for these substitution effects, the average effective tariff rate would be 16.4%, the highest since 1937, the Yale Budget Lab estimates.<\/p>\n

The timing of that substitution is “highly uncertain,” it said.<\/p>\n

“Some shifts are likely to happen quickly \u2014 within days or weeks \u2014 while others may take longer,” according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cargo ship moors at the container terminal berth of Lianyungang Port for loading and unloading containers in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5464,748,3085,1700,393,4884,1144,2499,712,3075,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-96156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-breaking-news-economy","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-business-news","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-personal-finance","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-tariff","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}