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The Tariff Act of 1930 (codified at 19 U.S.C. ch. 4), commonly known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot Tariff, [1] was a law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United States.
The Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act was signed by Hoover on June 17, 1930, while the Wall Street crash took place in the fall of 1929. Most of the trade contraction occurred between January 1930 and July 1932, before most protectionist measures were introduced, except for the limited measures applied by the United States in the summer of 1930.
1922: Fordney–McCumber Tariff; 1930: Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act; 1934: Reciprocal Tariff Act; 1947: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; 1962: Trade Expansion Act; 1974: Trade Act of 1974; 1979: Trade Agreements Act of 1979; 1984: Trade and Tariff Act of 1984; 1988: Omnibus Foreign Trade and Competitiveness Act; 1994: World Trade ...
But critics of tariffs grew and reached a crescendo with the historic failure of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. It was signed into law by Hoover in the early stages of the Great Depression ...
But trade lawyers say the White House has some authority to act independently of Capitol Hill, ... the Trade Act of 1974 and the Tariff Act of 1930. ...
During the outbreak of the Great Depression in 1930, Congress raised tariffs via the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels, and, in the opinion of most economists, worsened the Great Depression by causing other countries to reciprocate, thereby plunging American imports and exports by more than half.
Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on imports would likely lead to a depression similar to the Great Depression, as seen in the Smoot-Hawley tariff act of 1930, which caused the global trade to ...
Smoot was a co-sponsor of the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, which raised U.S. import tariffs on over 20,000 dutiable items to record levels. Many historians believe that it exacerbated the Great Depression. U.S. President Herbert Hoover signed the act into law on June 17, 1930. [2]