The George W. Bush administration's 2002 steel tariffs caused substantial economic harm without any observed benefits. The tariffs failed at boosting local steel employment, while substantially depressing local employment in steel-consuming industries for many years after Bush removed the tariffs. ⚖️📉🔧💼
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Local Labor Market Effects of the 2002 Bush Steel Tariffs
(November 2025) - President George W. Bush imposed safeguard tariffs on steel in early 2002. Using US input-output tables and a generalized difference-in-difference methodology, we analyze the local labor market employment effects of these tariffs depending…
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