Our model finds that increasing tariffs on imports from China to the Column 2 rate would increase real household incomes by $3,647, or 4.9%, and create 2 million new jobs. In 2022, the $382.9 billion trade deficit with China accounted for 32% of the $1.19 trillion total U.S. trade deficit. As our research shows, this has cost 3.4 million American manufacturing jobs since 2001.

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