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 ...

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

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

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

It’s important to remember the Canadian economy did not collapse before free trade, despite being circumvallated by tariff ...

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

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 ...

Kurt Bauer, president and chief executive officer of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, notes that while WMC’s members may ...

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

Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has called for dialogue and restraint in response to tariff ...

The new Trump administration rightly aims to create millions more good jobs in growing industries in America. Higher tariffs aren’t the way to do it ...