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February 2025        



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  Focus

Towards a Trade War in 2025: Real Threats for the World Economy, False Promises for the US

Using the MIRAGE-Power model, this Working Paper simulates a trade war initiated in 2025 by the new US administration. The central scenario consists in a 60 percentage point tariff increase on all US imports from China, a 10 percentage point tariff increase on all products from other partners, except Canada and Mexico, and reciprocal tariff retaliation. World GDP and world trade decrease respectively by 0.5% and 3.4% in volume, with significant losses for the US and China, and gains for Canada and Mexico. A substantial reallocation of bilateral goods trade flows is taking place at global level. Additional scenarios show that: details of the tariff reform matter; the discriminatory tariff treatment of China benefits other trading partners; trade retaliation increases US economic losses; if Non-Tariff Measures are included in this trade war, the consequences are worse; if Canada and Mexico are included in the trade war, both experience significant losses in terms of GDP and trade. Last, the paper shows that the US will not be able to replace the federal income tax with tariff revenues, even with a revenue-maximizing tariff. Antoine Bouët, Leysa Maty Sall, Yu Zheng 
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How Trump tariffs (2.0) will reshape the car industry

The automotive sector plays a central role in Donald Trump's declarations on trade deficits and his threats of protectionist measures against the European Union as well as Canada and Mexico. With a $270 billion motor vehicle trade deficit in 2023, cars are one of the major items, nearly a quarter of the total, in the US trade deficit after consumer goods. Thierry Mayer, Vincent Vicard, Pauline Wibaux
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  Facts & Figures



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The very dynamic trade in healthcare products

The boom in international trade in healthcare products does not date back to the Covid-19 pandemic but to the great multilateral trade opening of the 2000s. Will the protectionist tensions that have been building since 2022 slow this growth? Pierre Cotterlaz, Guillaume Gaulier, Aude Sztulman, Deniz Ünal


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China, the leading importer of minerals for lithium-ion batteries

China, in addition to being one of the leading producers of minerals used in electric vehicle batteries, has also become the largest importer, thanks to its massive investments worldwide. Romain Capliez, Carl Grekou, Emmanuelle Hache, Valérie Mignon


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ISSN: 1255-7072
Editorial Director : Antoine Bouët
Managing Editor : Evgenia Korotkova