The Tariff Act of 1890 raised taxes to 49.5% on 1,500-plus items. Championing the move was the “Napoleon of Protectionism,” ...

Trump is operating under the illusion that other nations are becoming wealthy on the backs of American trade deficits. It's a ...

When announcing the blanket tariffs he’s imposing on countries around the world, President Trump made a claim about the role ...

Trump's tariffs are 'every bit as high' as the Great Depression-era Smoot-Hawley Tariff widely blamed for worsening the ...

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

Instead, the 31st president got the Great Depression. Trump ... Gary Richardson, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine, said the U.S. long maintaining high tariffs ...

In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep ... an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine, said the U.S. long maintaining high tariffs "helped to shift industry here.