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 ...

() - Former President Donald Trump has proposed replacing the federal income tax with tariffs imposed on imported products.

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

Kyle Peterson: Donald Trump is campaigning on higher tariffs, including a new universal tariff that could take the U.S. back to the days of Smoot-Hawley. But would he do it, could he do it ...

As York points out for the Tax Foundation, the 1930 Hawley-Smoot tariffs sent the average tariff rate to "highs of 59.1 percent on tariffed goods and 19.8 percent on all imported goods during the ...