Illustration: Mountain People The US was also a founding member of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and its successor, the WTO. Both were established in response to the economic damage ...

The Trump administration has issued ‘America First Trade Policy’, the most damaging trade policy since the Smoot Hawley ...

As President Trump enacts his protectionist trade agenda, a Depression-era tariff law is gaining new relevance: The ...

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff encompassed roughly a quarter of all imports, flaring tensions with U.S. trading partners and halving American imports and exports as a result. Caught in the crosshairs ...

Development economist Jostein Hauge talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the winners and losers from tariffs and ...

It might happen, but it is very dangerous to us. The Smoot Hawley Tariff of 1930 was "icing on the cake" for a series of tariffs thought to be a major cause of the Great Depression. Although there ...

Sometimes, this effect can be catastrophic. Many economists believe that the Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930 and foreign retaliation deepened the economic downturn into the Great Depression.

In 1934—chastised in part by the disaster of the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff increases, when other countries raised their own tariffs to retaliate against the United States—Congress empowered ...

As America abandons a rules-based order, countries must work together to defend global peace. Canada is uniquely positioned ...

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff encompassed roughly a quarter of all imports, flaring tensions with U.S. trading partners and halving American imports and exports as a result. Caught in the crosshairs, ...

In 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which raised tariffs on imported goods. Intended to protect American farmers, the law instead triggered a sharp decline in ...