A May 2019 study by economists from Harvard University, the University of Chicago and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on the impact of tariffs on the U.S. economy found that the cost of tariffs “has fallen largely on the U.S.”

President Trump’s trade truce with China may have temporarily cooled tensions between the world’s two largest economies. Anew paper by researchers at Harvard University, the University of Chicago and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston suggests that businesses and consumers in the United States are feeling an impact from the trade fight and that the pain could escalate.