Most historians look back on Smoot-Hawley as a mistake. But tariffs have a new champion in President Donald Trump.

Unless Trump has a deck full of aces up his sleeve and an alternative strategy for his actions that is not public, the ...

No, America did not sign up for a tariff war with the world. That would hurt us and our friends, while emboldening our ...

Yes, President Donald Trump did in fact talk about tariffs while campaigning, but nobody foresaw his unilateral declaration ...

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act ... The Great Depression began with “Black Tuesday” on Oct. 29, 1929, when a panic selloff triggered a stock market collapse ...

Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition: tariffs.President Herbert Hoover signed ... Trump's new levies.'Black Tuesday ...

FILE – People stand on a breadline ... “There’s no theater to Herbert Hoover,” said David Hamilton, a history professor at the University of Kentucky. Trying to keep his campaign promise ...

In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot ...