Get that? If a U.S. company moves production overseas, Trump wants to apply a 35 percent tariff for them to bring the products back in.

The Monkey Cage spoke with an expert on international tax policy who was skeptical for a variety of reasons that this proposal, if adopted, would be successful. (House Republicans don't seem inclined to adopt it, anyway.) NYU Professor Mitchell Kane explained to the Monkey Cage's Joshua Tucker that the conflict is between keeping jobs in the United States and paying less for products. Bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. would increase labor costs and the cost of products, even if the cost of foreign-manufactured products was also increased through the tariff. And foreign companies not subject to the tariff would have a huge advantage.

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We can make those price increases from the tariff tangible.

The watchdog organization Public Citizen has received data on Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) from a rolling Freedom of Information Act request for more than a decade. TAA allows those affected by job loss from increased imports or offshoring to petition the government for training or other benefits as a result. (Interestingly, the program was advocated by President John F. Kennedy specifically as an alternative to increasing tariffs.) That means that Public Citizen has a database of thousands of corporations that have moved production overseas — giving us a way to see how Trump's tariff might affect costs.

We created a browser extension for Google Chrome for products at Amazon.com and Walmart.com. (Amazon's chief executive is Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post.) If a product is made by a company that moved production overseas, according to TAA filings, you'll get an alert at the top of the page, letting you know.

Here, for example, is what it looks like if you, for some reason, wanted to buy a $2,400 Carrier air conditioner from Amazon.

A 35 percent tariff in that case might mean an extra $800 in costs for you.

The alert won't pop up with a great deal of regularity for a variety of reasons. (Some companies you can try: Cisco Systems, Jantzen, 3M.) That's because, as you might expect, there are a number of caveats.

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1. This is not a comprehensive list of manufacturers that have moved production overseas. First of all, Public Citizen's data lags from actual filings by an number of months. Second, not every overseas move is captured in TAA requests. So there may be companies that have moved production overseas that aren't flagged in our system. (We tried to err on the side of caution.)

2. Subsidiaries of companies that moved jobs overseas may not be captured. Part of what this project reveals is that the complexity of international business operations can make it tricky to figure out what counts and what doesn't. For example:

3. Companies move certain production overseas that may or may not apply to the product at hand. The TAA data include descriptions of what was moved that we included in our tool. (You can search their database for more information.) Whether or not what was offshored is included in the product is often hard to ascertain.

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Raising immediate questions: Where does Trump's tariff apply? How much of the product must have been made overseas for it to trigger the tariff? The proposal seems well-primed to create as many loopholes as it does targets.

4. Products listed as made in America are excluded. On Amazon, products can be identified as being made in the United States. On Walmart's site, there's a standard disclaimer that such claims are worth taking with a grain of salt, since this is can be a remarkably subjective assertion. We're taking those Amazon products at their word, but a deep dive by federal investigators might offer a different opinion.

What this extension demonstrates immediately is the short-term effect of Trump's proposal: Higher costs for products that you might not expect. What it reveals in application is how tricky Trump's seemingly simple solution would be in practice.

The devil, you might say, is in the details.

Update: Wonkblog's Max Ehrenfreund points out that the effect on consumers would probably be smaller. He writes:

It is unlikely that a 35 percent tariff would result in 35 percent increase in prices for consumers. Importers would increase their prices substantially, but to be able to sell more products, they would not increase the tariff by the full amount of the tariff, accepting a reduced profit margin instead.

Marcus Noland, an economist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, speculates that prices of goods made in Mexico might increase by about 25 percent in response to a 35 percent tariff in the short term. In the long term, as U.S. factories developed the capacity to produce those goods, the price would decline.