Economists: US-Made Goods Offer High Costs, Few Benefits

Buying U.S.-made products comes with a hefty price tag, and provisions to make them here shouldn’t be expanded, economists argue in a new paper.

In a September report for the National Bureau for Economic Research titled “The Increasing Cost of Buying American,” economists Matilde Bombardini, Andres Gonzalez-Lira, Bingjing Li, and Chiara Motta measured the costs and benefits of Buy American provisions, which have been implemented by both the Biden and Trump administrations.

The four found that existing federal rules impose higher costs on consumers.

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