A better economic strategy starts with relaunching talks with trading partners to lower international trade barriers.

The Journalist's Resource and Econofact recently hosted a webinar on covering tariffs. Watch the recording and read key ...

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

But economic, political and technological changes have left Canada with few ways to handle trade restrictions now.

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 ...

Similar tariffs in 1930 destroyed global trade and intensified the Great Depression. The history of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act shows how Mr. Trump’s tariffs are likely to play out. In 1930 ...

Okonjo Iweala has warned that the tit-for-tat tariff war between countries will have serious consequences on global ...

And he frequently begins by talking about the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930. (Prior analysis: Tax Notes, Dec. 19, 2016, p. 1398.) Trump critics routinely invoke Smoot-Hawley as an object ...

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 kneecapped America's ability to escape the Great Depression, and today's trade wars look ...

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 ...

The World Trade Organization chief said on Thursday that any tit-for-tat trade wars prompted by U.S. President Donald Trump's ...