One expert is comparing the fallout from President Donald Trump’s tariffs to the aftermath of a trade policy that deepened ...

Tariff critics have shared on social media a November 1988 video clip of President Ronald Reagan calling Smoot-Hawley "a ...

Hawley all over again! At least by this reporter's calculations, the sweeping tariff regime that President Trump unveiled ...

Global markets, US stock market plummeting after Trump tariffs announcement. Here's what to know about retaliatory tariffs ...

For many years, tariffs were viewed favorably by Americans. But in the 1930s, one act of Congress changed people's minds.

Republican lawmakers say there’s a good chance that President Trump’s trade war will boomerang on Republicans politically in ...

Trump's new tariffs exceed levels following the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, risking global retaliation and economic slowdown.

Tariffs now rival those of the storied Smoot-Hawley Act that prompted massive retaliations and a global trade war in the ...

Smoot-Hawley came to be seen as exemplifying “beggar-thy-neighbour” policies that benefited one nation at the expense of the ...

Congress passed a bill sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot of Utah and Rep. Willis Hawley of Oregon to raise import duties on ...

President Trump on Wednesday said that the 1930s Great Depression wouldn’t have happened if tariffs had continued, while ...