President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. Vintage photos show how they affected Americans.

President Trump recently instituted new tariffs on two allies and one adversary: 25% on goods from Mexico and Canada and 10% ...

Here’s how current events are mirroring a key point in U.S. history that led to a trade war and exacerbated the Great ...

Major Acts: The Tariff Act of 1890, supported by Ohio Representative William McKinley, was the highest protective tariff in the nation’s history and expanded presidential authority in foreign trade.

It is now proposed to reenact a highly protective tariff, both for revenue and protection. To the adoption at this crisis of such a measure, there are certainly very grave objections. No act of ...

The Tariff Act of 1930, popularly known as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, levied protective tariffs on about 800 to 900 different types of goods, accounting for about 25% of all goods imported to the U ...

The reality is, there have always been plenty of exceptions to free trade. Furthermore, protective barriers like tariffs may harm some industries or companies while benefitting others. Paper clip ...

"With the U.S. Reciprocal Trade Act, we’ll give the executive the leverage necessary to go to bat for the American people and achieve tariff reductions on U.S. goods," he said. Trump released a ...

America's trading partners keep their markets to closed to U.S. exports, White House says in ordering up plan to impose ...

George Washington (1789–1797) signed the Tariff Act of 1789, one of the first major ... leading to calls for more protective tariffs to reduce dependence on foreign goods. The Tariff of 1824 ...

Soon after the first major protective tariff was enacted on a range of products (from pig iron to rope to woolen goods), a logroll formed that joined the Northeast and Midwest against the South.