President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would ...

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

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 ...

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 ... argues that the U.S. was founded on steep import taxes on goods from abroad. People stand on a breadline, early victims of the ...

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act ... China and other countries to Trump’s new levies. FILE – People stand on a breadline, early victims of the Great Depression ...

Trump’s passion for tariffs, one could say, depends on “black magic” to work ... then risk the fate of becoming a 21st-century Herbert Hoover. One bright spot: The Senate has passed a ...