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 ...

Donald Trump's announcement of tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, and ultimately the European Union would benefit no one. Even Americans would lose out. Even the threats of erecting trade ...

Donald Trump's tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, and, ultimately, the European Union benefit no one. Even Americans lose out. Even the threats of erecting trade barriers, even if not ultimately ...

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

Those tariffs are widely credited with sinking the United States deeper into the Great Depression. And although global trade ...

Willis C. Hawley (left) and Reed Smoot meeting shortly after the signing of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. (Credit: National Photo Company/Wikimedia Commons/Postmedia files) Fans of the movie Ferris ...

Robert Bothwell, an emeritus professor of Canadian history at the University of Toronto, said the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was just another example of the “beggar-thy-neighbour” policies favoured by ...

Something similar happened in 1930 after passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, which reduced global trade and exacerbated the Great Depression, economists said. A trade war is brewing — and ...