Tariff Timeline of Activity
Includes new exemption for electronics imports from the “reciprocal” tariffs.
New chart on weighted average tariff rates and incorporates China’s higher retaliatory rate on US exports.
April 11, 2025
April 10, 2025
Includes the 90-day pause of escalating the so-called reciprocal tariffs that apply to nearly all US trading partners and the increase to 125 percent reciprocal tariffs on China.
Update: Includes the additional 50 percent tariff on all imports from China.
April 9, 2025
April 4, 2025
Update: Includes new retaliatory tariffs announced by China and Canada.
Reflects exemption list published on April 3 for the April 2 universal tariffs.
April 3, 2025
April 3, 2025
Update reflects President Trump’s new April 2 tariffs related to a national economic emergency on 60 trading partners at specific rates, other trading partners at 10 percent, and non-USMCA Canada and Mexico imports at a 12 percent rate after IEEPA fentanyl tariffs end, and updated auto, steel, and aluminum tariffs.
Timeline includes new details on Section 232 auto and auto part tariffs and modeling includes new tariffs on auto imports and on Venezuela and trading partners that import oil from Venezuela.
April 1, 2025
April 3, 2025
Update reflects President Trump’s new April 2 tariffs related to a national economic emergency on 60 trading partners at specific rates, other trading partners at 10 percent, and non-USMCA Canada and Mexico imports at a 12 percent rate after IEEPA fentanyl tariffs end, and updated auto, steel, and aluminum tariffs.
Timeline includes new details on Section 232 auto and auto part tariffs and modeling includes new tariffs on auto imports and on Venezuela and trading partners that import oil from Venezuela.
April 1, 2025
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Updated timeline to add new “secondary” tariff threat on imports from Venezuela and countries that purchase oil or gas from Venezuela.
March 25, 2025
March 12, 2025
Updated timeline for EU retaliation against US Section 232 tariffs.
Update: New revenue and economic estimates for changes to IEEPA tariffs and implementation of Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs.
March 12, 2025
March 7, 2025
Updates timeline for Canada, Mexico, and China tariffs. Tax Foundation is in the process of updating economic and revenue estimates for these developments.
President Trump imposed new tariffs on three of the country's largest trading partners: Canada, Mexico, and China.
March 4, 2025
March 3, 2025
Added threatened lumber and agricultural tariffs to timeline.
New estimates for the proposed 25 percent tariff on EU imports and the increase in tariff rates on China. The update also incorporates the latest version of Tax Foundation’s General Equilibrium Model and updates to our tariff modeling to reflect the latest tax and economic data and a refinement to our tariff noncompliance assumption.
Feb 27, 2025
Feb 19, 2025
Updated to include details around the 2025 trade war timeline and provide analysis of Trump's auto, steel, and aluminum tariffs.
Updated to include analysis of Trump's expanded steel and aluminum tariffs.
Feb 13, 2025
Feb 11, 2025
Updated to include new revenue collection data for the Trump-Biden tariffs.
Update: We rearranged the tracker and added an estimate of the value of US exports targeted by China’s retaliatory tariffs.
Feb 10, 2025
Feb 6, 2025
Updated to include the revenue effects of ending duty-free de minimis treatment of imports from China.
Updated to include additional distributional and historical analysis.
Feb , 2025
Feb 1, 2025
Updated to include the 10 percent tariff on Canadian energy resources.
Updated to include additional analysis of the proposed 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico that could begin February 1, 2025.
Jan 31, 2025
Jan 31, 2025
Updated to separate out 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico given recent threats that these tariffs could begin February 1, 2025.
The update contains modeling of President-elect Trump’s proposed 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico and 10 percent tariff on China.
Nov 26, 2024
June 26, 2024
The update adds import data through 2023, new data on tariff collections, and updated model results for imposed, retaliatory, and proposed tariffs. The modeling updates reflect President Biden’s tariff increases and former President Trump’s tariff proposals. Nicolo Pastrone assisted with the research for this update.
The update adds a new column to the “Imports Affected by U.S. Tariffs” table, reflecting import data for calendar year 2022, data updates for prior years, and tariff-rate quotas that took effect in 2022 for certain steel and aluminum imports.
Sep 19, 2024
July 7, 2024
Tariffs on washing machines expired in February 2023 after an initial three-year period and a two-year extension. The Biden administration provided a two-year suspension of solar panel tariffs for four Southeast Asian nations beginning in 2022. The update adjusts the revenue and economic results for imposed tariffs.
The Biden administration has reached deals to replace steel and aluminum tariffs with tariff rate quotas for the European Union and United Kingdom and steel tariffs with tariff-rate quotas for Japan. The deals also eliminate tariffs on derivative goods from the same jurisdictions and will bring an end to related retaliatory tariffs. The update adjusts revenue and economic estimates for imposed and retaliatory tariffs and adds a new table illustrating how import levels of affected goods have changed since 2017.
April 1, 2024
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Under President Biden, the U.S. will suspend tariffs on aircrafts and other goods from the E.U. under a five-year pause in the ongoing Boeing-Airbus dispute. We have reorganized the layout of the tracker.
Oct 19, 2021
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U.S. to eliminate tariffs on $2.5 billion worth of Canadian aluminum that had been imposed on August 16, 2020, to avoid Canadian retaliatory tariffs.
Sep 18, 2020
August 13, 2020
U.S. to reimpose tariffs on $2.5 billion worth of Canadian aluminum on August 16, 2020, and Canada to impose retaliatory tariffs.
U.S. reduces tariffs on $120 billion of Chinese goods by half to 7.5% and China reduces tariffs on approximately $75 billion of US goods in half to 2.5% and 5%.
Aug 14, 2020
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U.S. postpones indefinitely the scheduled tariff of 15% on $160 billion worth of goods from China and announces plans to decrease the 15% tariff on $120 billion worth of goods from China to 7.5% (date unknown, will be included in the model when the decrease takes effect). China took corresponding measures and canceled their schedule tariff increase.
Dec 19, 2019
December 5, 2019
U.S. concludes Section 301 investigation into France's Digital Services Tax, threatens tariffs on $2.4 billion French products. Our analysis now includes tariffs on solar panels and washing machines.
U.S. postpones indefinitely the scheduled tariff of 15% on $160 billion worth of goods from China and announces plans to decrease the 15% tariff on $120 billion worth of goods from China to 7.5% (date unknown, will be included in the model when the decrease takes effect). China took corresponding measures and canceled their schedule tariff increase.
Dec 19, 2019
December 5, 2019
U.S. concludes Section 301 investigation into France's Digital Services Tax, threatens tariffs on $2.4 billion French products. Our analysis now includes tariffs on solar panels and washing machines.
U.S. postpones indefinitely the scheduled tariff of 15% on $160 billion worth of goods from China and announces plans to decrease the 15% tariff on $120 billion worth of goods from China to 7.5% (date unknown, will be included in the model when the decrease takes effect). China took corresponding measures and canceled their schedule tariff increase.
Dec 19, 2019
December 5, 2019
U.S. concludes Section 301 investigation into France's Digital Services Tax, threatens tariffs on $2.4 billion French products. Our analysis now includes tariffs on solar panels and washing machines.
U.S. postpones indefinitely the scheduled tariff of 15% on $160 billion worth of goods from China and announces plans to decrease the 15% tariff on $120 billion worth of goods from China to 7.5% (date unknown, will be included in the model when the decrease takes effect). China took corresponding measures and canceled their schedule tariff increase.
Dec 19, 2019
December 5, 2019
U.S. concludes Section 301 investigation into France's Digital Services Tax, threatens tariffs on $2.4 billion French products. Our analysis now includes tariffs on solar panels and washing machines.
The update contains modeling of President-elect Trump’s proposed 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico and 10 percent tariff on China.
Nov 26, 2024
June 26, 2024
The update adds import data through 2023, new data on tariff collections, and updated model results for imposed, retaliatory, and proposed tariffs. The modeling updates reflect President Biden’s tariff increases and former President Trump’s tariff proposals. Nicolo Pastrone assisted with the research for this update.
The update contains modeling of President-elect Trump’s proposed 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico and 10 percent tariff on China.
Nov 26, 2024
June 26, 2024
The update adds import data through 2023, new data on tariff collections, and updated model results for imposed, retaliatory, and proposed tariffs. The modeling updates reflect President Biden’s tariff increases and former President Trump’s tariff proposals. Nicolo Pastrone assisted with the research for this update.
Timeline includes new details on Section 232 auto and auto part tariffs and modeling includes new tariffs on auto imports and on Venezuela and trading partners that import oil from Venezuela.
April 1, 2025
April 3, 2025
Update reflects President Trump’s new April 2 tariffs related to a national economic emergency on 60 trading partners at specific rates, other trading partners at 10 percent, and non-USMCA Canada and Mexico imports at a 12 percent rate after IEEPA fentanyl tariffs end, and updated auto, steel, and aluminum tariffs.
Timeline includes new details on Section 232 auto and auto part tariffs and modeling includes new tariffs on auto imports and on Venezuela and trading partners that import oil from Venezuela.
April 1, 2025
April 3, 2025
Update reflects President Trump’s new April 2 tariffs related to a national
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