Robert Lighthizer, the former U.S. Trade Representative, lost his bid to rejoin the White House, but he still believes the ...

Herbert Hoover signed the retaliatory Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, and it only made the Great Depression worse. | Opinion ...

In that region, it was termed the “Tariff of Abominations” and directly led to the Nullification Crisis of 1832, which planted the seed for secession and civil war a generation later.