FRAME STUDIO / Getty Images The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 raised U.S. import duties with the goal of protecting American farmers and businesses from foreign competition. The Smoot-Hawley ...
Those tariffs are widely credited with sinking the United States deeper into the Great Depression. And although global trade ...
Within months of the stock market crash, Hoover signed into law the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, a 1930 measure that increased tariffs for a broad swathe of imported goods. In response, several ...
Author Thomas Fellows spoke recently about how reciprocal tariffs were similar to the Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 and how they ...
That the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 was, as a whole, futile and that the various measures adopted therein are little more than gestures, "made because the Republicans had vaunted the tariff ...
Among the most infamous examples is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which exacerbated an already dire economic situation. Implemented to protect American farmers and manufacturers, the tariff ...
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 ...
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 ...
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