President Trump’s tariff agenda represents one of the most ambitious economic policy experiments in American history. But how should we evaluate the president’s actions on his own terms?
To answer that question, EIG has developed the Trade Policy Dashboard — an interactive, comprehensive new tool for evaluating whether the core promises of the Trump administration’s trade agenda are being fulfilled. Rather than litigate the premise of the president’s actions, we instead endeavored to take seriously (and, where possible, literally) the case for tariffs laid out by the Trump administration itself.
Drawing from the administration’s own stated goals and metrics, the dashboard tracks 15 key indicators across five categories:
- Trade flows
- Budgetary impacts
- Manufacturing employment
- Manufacturing output
- Macroeconomic effects
Learn more about the specific indicators within these categories and why we chose them here.
President Trump has promoted tariffs as a transformational tool for American industry, workers, and communities. In the years ahead, the Trade Policy Dashboard will reveal whether or not he succeeded.
