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THe US tariff value at present averages 20.1 percent, the highest raze since the betimes 1910s -- except for a legal brief spike earlier this year -- after new duties took effect Thursday, WTO and IMF data showed Friday.The figure, calculated by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), stands in contrast with the 2.4-percent rate in force at the time of President Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20.Trump's April 2 announcement of "reciprocal" tariffs on the United States's main trading partners and subsequent escalations, particularly on Chinese goods, briefly drove the average rate to 24.8 percent in May, a figure unseen since 1904, according to data from the United States International Trade Commission.A trade "truce" brought down sky-high tariff levels that the United States and China had imposed upon one another, but that is set to expire next week.The new figure by the WTO and IMF takes into account the trade deals the United States negotiated with the European Union, Japan, South Korea and other nations that have now come into force.It also includes the latest tariffs unilaterally applied by the United States on Brazil, Canada and semi-finished copper imports.These deals usually included lower tariff levels than Trump threatened in April but were higher than the baseline 10-percent rate the US introduced.The updated average tariff rate exceeds the nearly 20-percent rate that the United States applied in the 1930s, a period of high tariffs that economists widely consider behind the severity and duration of the Great Depression.However, the WTO and the IMF estimate the average rate, which is based on trade volumes, by applying the latest rates to 2024 trade volumes.Thus, it is an estimation as companies have already changed their behaviour by stockpiling and delaying purchases and may shift buying patterns or reduce imports in reaction to the new rates.According to the Budget Lab at Yale University, once changing consumption patterns and secondary effects are taken into account, the figure should fall towards 17.7 percent, provided Trump doesn't make any more shock announcements.

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