"At the beginning of this year, most people probably had little awareness or had even heard of tariffs."
"That changed quickly with the start of the current administration."
"For the New York Times, Lazaro Gamio, Keith Collins, and Ana Swanson show the big shifts, which have varied widely by country."
"The layers in the series of stacked area charts are mostly minding their own business pre-inauguration, and then suddenly they are not."
Awareness of tariffs was low at the start of the year. Tariff levels changed quickly after the administration took office. The magnitude and direction of tariff shifts varied widely by country. Stacked-area charts show these changes as variations in the thickness and position of layers over time. Many layers remained relatively stable before inauguration and then shifted abruptly afterward. The visualization indicates sudden, administration-linked changes in trade barriers rather than gradual trends. The timing and cross-country variation point to a policy shock with heterogeneous impacts on different trading partners.
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