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

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 ...

His allies now claim that he wouldn’t really impose massive global tariffs if elected. But the uncertainty created by threats ...

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 ...

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

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

If China retaliates to a trade war, "that’s a lose-lose with global ramifications,” said Primavera founder Fred Hu at the ...

Bank of Italy Governor Fabio Panetta warned against scapegoating globalization and said tariffs won’t solve the world’s ...