Then he argued that the U.S. ended tariffs, despite a tariff act from President Herbert Hoover at the time. “In 1929, it all came to a very abrupt end with the Great Depression, and it would ...

In the early days of the Great Depression ... farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition: tariffs.President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many ...