Alan Beattie So, we always start off on The Economic Show with a simple question which we ... which is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930, kicked off a big round of protectionism during the Great ...

And he frequently begins by talking about the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930 ... “For Michael Pettis, the world is really simple.” Still, Pettis has won his share of fans — and ...

Despite his blustering style, his best points were just simple common sense ... especially with the wretched Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930. The result was a decade-long world depression and the ...

Like our predecessors in 1930, we oppose the use of tariffs as a general tool for economic policy.

And during the Great Depression, the Hawley-Smoot tariff boosted the average U.S. import tax to 59 per cent. For a century and a half, from the early 1800s until the late 1940s, U.S. tariffs were ...

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, during the Great Depression, shaped how U.S. industries developed, and not only for the ...

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 ...

The history of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act shows how Mr. Trump’s tariffs are likely to play out. In 1930, Utah senator Reed Smoot and Oregon representative Willis Hawley proposed a sharp ...

to bolster prices ballooned into a sweeping piece of legislation known as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. It raised already high U.S. tariffs, eventually bringing the average import duty to a ...

We’ve moved from a world of fear to an age of grievance, says PR giant Edelman She recalled the fallout from the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in the United States during the Great Depression in 1930 ...