The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, signed into law in 1930, was a U.S. legislative measure that raised tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods. Named after its sponsors, Senator Reed Smoot and ...

He added there was "no reason" for markets to price in a recession. The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930, maybe most familiar due to its inclusion in the 1986 film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” was ...

But the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act — named after its Republican authors, Sen. Reed Smoot of Utah and Rep. Willis C. Hawley of Oregon — became law on June 17, 1930, when Hoover signed the bill.

Within months of the stock market crash, Hoover signed into law the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, a 1930 measure that increased tariffs for a broad swathe of imported goods. In response, several ...

The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930, a Depression-era tariff signed into law by then-President Herbert Hoover, continues to be invoked in conversations surrounding Trump’s tariff plan, as the on-again ...

A Republican president-elect pledges support for expansive tariffs as a means of protecting U.S. businesses and hamstringing global competitors. That description may conjure up former President ...

She is a graduate of Ithaca College. The Trump administration's sweeping new tariff proposal has sparked comparisons to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which some economists blame for ...