Trade was only 4% of GNP at the time. The Smoot-Hawley did nothing to worsen the Great Depression becasue it affected just a tiny portion of the overall economy. So let is go. It is a lie and an attempt to re-write history by globalist trade nuts.
Year after year, the nation could not climb out of the pit.
1929: Wall Street collapse and banking sector failures.
1930/1931: Smoot-Hawley Act.
1931: Dust Bowl starts.
1932: Hoover tax rates fall into play.
1933: New Deal arrives.
1934: 10-percent GDP growth in one single year. Massive printing of money.
1935: More printed money, and social security arrives.
1936: New taxes via FDR and Congress arrive.
1937/1938: New mini-depression occurs and ends a year later.
1939/1940: Dust Bowl drought starts to disappear. 8-percent GDP growth each year.
1942: War starts and FDR has to relax industrial rules...allowing finally for exit to the depression.
EF Hutton. Sorry for my typing.