The Smoot-Hawley tariffs were meant to protect farmers, but grew owing to congressional “logrolling”, as representatives ...

Donald Trump’s tariff agenda is a near-repeat of America’s trade agenda of the 1930s. That did not end well for anyone.

President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington ...

Tariffs are a means for one country to wrangle better trade terms with another country and to protect domestic manufacturing.

Such confidence turned out to be gravely misplaced. In 1930 Herbert Hoover signed into law the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariffs, named after their congressional sponsors. The average levy on American ...

In June 1930, in an effort to protect U.S. businesses and farmers from foreign competition, President Herbert Hoover signed into law the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, a measure that increased tariffs ...

Donald Trump’s latest tariffs imposed on Canada, China and Mexico have been mocked as a famous Ferris Bueller's Day Off clip ...

In his inaugural address, Donald Trump harked back to William McKinley, the 25th US president, who raised tariffs on US ...

The President of the United States is arguably the most important job in the country. Compared to the salaries of executives ...

Several factors led to the Great Depression, one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. NPR interviewed ...