Ridiculous.... you are reaching
Every number I quoted above is accurate. Smoot-Hawley caused 3.5% GDP destruction and approx 5% unemployment for a decade. How can a country that is a net exporter not be hurt when international trade comes to a screeching halt, if there4 is no corresponding domestic demand to take up the slack? This is one of the few facts of economics that isn’t even counterintuitive.