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This paper quantifies the welfare effects and resource shifts that would occur if U.S. quantitative restrictions in textiles, steel, and autos were removed. Estimates are derived from a static ten-sector general equilibrium model of the U.S. economy. The welfare loss from the quantitative restrictions is estimated at approximately U.S. $20 billion (1984 dollars). Due to the high rent transfer component of quantitative restrictions (about 75 percent), the average across-the-board tariff equivalent of quantitative restrictions (in terms of welfare costs) is estimated at about 20 percent, a rate which predates the early days of multilateral tariff reduction. Copyright 1990 by MIT Press.