"The Smoot-Hawley tariff ignited an international trade war and helped sink our country into the Great Depression," then-president Ronald Reagan said during a radio address in 1986. The measure ...
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 kneecapped America's ability to escape the Great Depression, and today's trade wars look ...
But economic, political and technological changes have left Canada with few ways to handle trade restrictions now.
The impact of tariffs on the Great Depression remains a cautionary tale about the dangers of economic protectionism during times of financial distress. Among the most infamous examples is the ...
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, during the Great Depression, shaped how U.S. industries developed, and not only for the ...
A mannerism is stymying economic discussion about the President Trump tariffs, as it has since the first presidential term. This is the accusation among economic purists that it is craven and ...
Herbert Hoover signed the retaliatory Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, and it only made the Great Depression worse. Mark Benedict Barry Library of Congress Protectionism doesn’t work ...
Kurt Bauer, president and chief executive officer of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, notes that while WMC’s members may ...
Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has called for dialogue and restraint in response to tariff ...