History

When was Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act signed?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/hawley-smoot-tariff-act-signed-154246.html" >When was Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act signed?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

Despite wide protest, the tariff act, called the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act because of its joint sponsorship by Representative Willis C. Hawley and Senator Reed Smoot, both Republicans, was signed (June, 1930) by President Hoover.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: In which year was Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act formalized? In which year was Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act signed? When was Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act formalized? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

A Logical Step to Open the Economy
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record ...Congress signed off on something...Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...protectionist Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, which worsened...In the Hawley-Smoot days, you...jacked up tariffs for certain...eliminating tariffs for other...eliminate tariff inequities...
Herbert Hoover: The 31st President, 1929-1933.(Books)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor ...that were forbidden by an act of Congress ... ordered...a* He also, in 1930, signed the widely criticized and protectionist a*Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act,a* which served to deepen...of the Emergency Banking Act in March of 1933, he clumsily...
The President's rotten record on trade: why George W. Bush is the most...
Magazine article from: Reason ...president. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff, which Hoover signed into law in 1930...Hoover, a high tariff on imported manufactured...understood that tariffs raised the prices...poor. After Smoot-Hawley led to a collapse...Roosevelt's first acts in office was...
That darn GATT Politics of world trade makes strange bedfellows
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe ...Adams. High tariffs, which protected...And when US tariffs reached an...under the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930...that approved Smoot-Hawley, now regarded...lower world tariffs by about a...other nations signed the first...
President Receives Letter From Economists Urging Prompt Ratification of GATT...
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire ...letter had also signed the famous 1930...passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. The President...clear that the Smoot Hawley Act sharply increased U.S. tariffs and helped touch...laureates in economics signed the letter: Robert...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.