Smoot-Hawley tariffs led to greatly diminished global trade — and, some experts argue, exacerbated the Great Depression.

Donald Trump's tariff war threatens to rage out of control. If PM Keir Starmer had any sense, he'd sit this one out. Instead ...

Public policy debates on issues such as citizenship, tariffs and education can be enriched by considering the historical context.

Like our predecessors in 1930, we oppose the use of tariffs as a general tool for economic policy.

It’s important to remember the Canadian economy did not collapse before free trade, despite being circumvallated by tariff walls ...

President Donald Trump's recent series of tariff threats over the past week signal that tariffs are coming, stoking worries about a trade war battering the global economy, but Capital Economics ...

For example, Congress passed a sweeping range of tariff hikes, some as high as 60%, after the stock market crash of 1929 under the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act to protect the farming industry.

President Donald Trump is set to follow through on one of his major campaign promises: placing new tariffs on Canada, Mexico ...

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 kneecapped America's ability to escape the Great Depression, and today's trade wars look ...

Many economists argue that they are harmful for the economy and consumers. For instance, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff could be perceived as worsening the Great Depression in the 1930s. In an attempt to ...

The last time Trump was president and imposed tariffs on trading partners, expectations of future inflation were low and ...