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Why are people talking about Smoot-Hawley, the Great Depression-era tariff plan?
Tariff critics have shared on social media a November 1988 video clip of President Ronald Reagan calling Smoot-Hawley "a ...
Newsday11d
Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different
President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tariffs from other countries, which is precisely what ...
USA Today12d
What is Smoot-Hawley? The Depression-era act being compared to Trump's tariffs
The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930, maybe most familiar due ... The policy raised U.S. import tariff rates, which were already high, in an attempt to guard American businesses and farmers from foreign ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette6d
History tells tale of two tariffs
President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tariffs from other countries, which is precisely what ...
Mercury News11d
Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different
WASHINGTON — In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American ...
The Boston Globe11d
Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different.
President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tariffs from other countries, which is precisely what ...
KETV Omaha11d
President Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. What history tells us
tariffs.President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tariffs from other countries, which is ...