The economic statecraft toolbox · after Laurence Wilse-Samson

Economic statecraft

States use those links as instruments. These charts count instruments the United States has used. They do not yet measure what the instruments did, or what other states have done.

Finance

Who can be cut off from dollars and payment rails?

Data to come

Investment

Whose capital is screened, blocked or taken as a stake?

Data to come

Technology

Which technologies are controlled, and for whom?

Data to come

Trade

8.2%

U.S. tariff rate actually collected, 2026 Q2.

The U.S. tariff rate actually collected

Trade

Duties actually collected divided by the value of goods imported, both at seasonally adjusted annual rates. It runs below the statutory rate, because importers shift toward lower-tariff goods and sources, and because exemptions and evasion reduce what is collected.

Customs duties as a percent of goods importsBEA national accounts via FRED (customs duties, B235RC1Q027SBEA; goods imports, A255RC1Q027SBEA); Balance of Power calculations.Data through 2026 Q2✓ Checked against BEA NIPA, customs duties 2026 Q2, $306.4bn at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (FRED B235RC1Q027SBEA)

U.S. tariffs since 1891, as duties collected on imports

Trade

Duties over all importsDuties over dutiable imports

Fiscal years to 1918, calendar years after; the half-years the table prints for 1918 and 1930 (Smoot-Hawley took effect on 18 June) are summed. The dutiable-imports ratio excludes duty-free goods, and the USITC notes it is overstated before 1993. Both are weak measures of tariff height, because high tariffs choke off the imports they tax.

Duties collected as a percent of importsU.S. International Trade Commission, "U.S. imports for consumption, duties collected, and ratio of duties to value, 1891-2025", Table 1 (March 2026); Balance of Power calculations.Data through 2025✓ Checked against USITC Table 1 (March 2026), duties collected over total imports 2025, 7.8 percent

Entries added to the U.S. sanctions list each year

Finance

All programsRussia and Ukraine-relatedIran-relatedCounter-terrorismCounter-narcotics

Counts people, companies, vessels and aircraft on the current list by the year they were first designated, grouped by sanctions program (an entry can sit in several). Entries since removed are no longer on the list, so earlier years are undercounted. The latest year is year to date.

Entries on today's SDN list, by year first addedU.S. Treasury, OFAC Specially Designated Nationals list (advanced XML); Balance of Power calculations.Data through 2026No published-figure check yet

Where the entries added to the U.S. sanctions list are based

Finance

RussiaChina and Hong KongIranUnited Arab Emirates

Counts entries by the countries of their addresses, nationality, citizenship or registration, so an entry tied to two of these countries appears in both lines. This is where the target sits, not which program it falls under: a Hong Kong company supplying Russia's military counts under China and Hong Kong. Only entries still on the list are counted, so earlier years are understated.

Entries on today's SDN list, by year first addedU.S. Treasury, OFAC Specially Designated Nationals list (advanced XML); Balance of Power calculations.Data through 2026No published-figure check yet

Treasury's currency report: who meets the criteria

Commerce rules adding companies to the Entity List

Technology

Each rule can add one party or hundreds, so this counts how often Commerce acts, not how many parties it lists. The latest year is year to date.

Final rules per yearFederal Register API, Bureau of Industry and Security final rules whose titles add parties to the Entity List; Balance of Power calculations.Data through 2026No published-figure check yet