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

Donald Trump officially became the 47th U.S. President (in addition to being the 45th President) after being sworn-in on ...

The American public dislikes them, along with business leaders, many Republicans and nearly all experts. But Trump has a zeal on the import taxes, and surrounding himself with like-minded figures.

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 ...

Perhaps most infamously, Congress raised close to nine hundred separate tariffs with the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which many economists say worsened the Great Depression. But over the past ...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has called for dialogue and restraint in response to tariff ... Smoot-Hawley Act, which worsened the Great Depression ...

“We’ve been here before, in the 1930s,” she recalled, referencing the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, a U.S. law that raised tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods, which “worsened the great ...

the federal legislators behind the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which imposed broad tariffs that exacerbated the Great Depression, and led to the period of reciprocity after World War II. For more ...

On the outskirts of London, a Georgian country house that was the first “White House” President Herbert Hoover ever called home has hit the market for £1.99 million (US$2.48 million).

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