This video explores the history of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, examining its devastating impact on the global economy during the Great Depression. We'll analyze the causes, ...

The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930, a Depression-era tariff signed into law by then-President Herbert Hoover, continues to be invoked in conversations surrounding Trump’s tariff plan, as the on-again ...

Signed into law in June 1930, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act sharply raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to protect American farmers and manufacturers during the early days of the Great ...

The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930, ... The policy raised U.S. import tariff rates, which were already high, in an attempt to guard American businesses and farmers from foreign competition.

Trump tariffs conjure specter of Smoot-Hawley Act, a Depression-era blunder. The 1930 tariff bill hurt exporters and provoked other countries to enact their own tariffs as the U.S. economy ...

President Trump seems to have taken his cues from the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. And boy did that one go over well! Houston Chronicle Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

President Trump said there would be “a little disturbance” from his tariffs, but how does he define little? The stock market Thursday suffered its worst day since the government shut down the ...

To protect jobs in the United States, they shepherded an immense tariff bill through Congress. The Smoot-Hawley Act , as it is called, imposed an average levy of some 20 percent on some 20,000 ...

CHARLES PAYNE: The truth about tariffs and the history lesson many critics are missing Tariffs from the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs Act are mistakenly considered a catalyst for the Great Depression.

The original Smoot-Hawley language that Rubenfeld cites was in section 338(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930 [19 U.S.C. §1338(d)], ...

To the editor: Contributor Veronique de Rugy’s essay on the parallels between President Trump’s tariff idiocy and the economic calamity that followed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 was ...