Anyone who had any doubt that Donald Trump’s love of tariffs is true should take note of his new promise, for Day 1 of his ...

It’s such an early priority, and tariffs are such a clear way to help pay for those tax cuts, that Trump’s former national ...

Trump is apparently oblivious to the societal train wrecks that protectionist tariffs have caused throughout American history ...

For the next four years, this country’s relations with the United States will be difficult on good days and steeped in crisis ...

The president-elect said he intends to levy a 25% tariff on goods imported from Mexico and Canada until drugs and ...

COLUMN. In 1930, the US sharply increased its tariffs, exacerbating the Great Depression. At a time when Donald Trump has ...

In a superficial way, the president most emulated by Donald Trump is Grover Cleveland insofar as Cleveland is the only other ...

The depression worsened for workers and farmers despite Smoot and Hawley's promises of prosperity from high tariffs; consequently, Hawley lost re-nomination, while Smoot was one of 12 Republican ...

To make Europe like the high rates of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act became last week the special duty of John F. Bethune, selected by Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher and his five Tariff ...

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 ...

The stock market crashed in 1929. In 1930, the president signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law. Over 1,000 economists signed a petition against the Tariff Act, but it passed and was signed ...