There have been warnings that the US tariff hikes could rival those of the infamous Smoot-Hawley measures of the 1930s which ...

The century-plus of back and forth came to an end — sort of — after 1930, when the Hoover administration, over the objections ...

The tariffs under the act, excluding duty-free imports, were the second highest in United States history, exceeded by only ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visions of another trade war with China and a rise in inflation are only a few of the worries economic experts raise with the ...

Tariffs don‘t just raise consumer prices. They also affect capital flows and on numerous occasions have triggered stock ...

Tariffs are coming, but Robert Lighthizer, the trade representative in the first Trump administration, has told associates ...