Import Restrictions Impact Volumes\, Not Prices: RBI Study

Import Restrictions Impact Volumes, Not Prices: RBI Study
Shipping containers sit stacked on the Ever Legend cargo vessel docked at a port on the Panama Canal in Panama City, Panama. (Photographer: Nicolo Filippo Rosso/Bloomberg)

Import Restrictions Impact Volumes, Not Prices: RBI Study

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Measures taken to encourage local manufacturing or those announced in response to restrictions by trade partners do have a significant impact on the volume of imports but not on inflation. That’s a...