>The Smoot-Hawley tariff invited retaliation from all of our trading partners. Prior to the tariff we had a trade surplus, exports greater than imports; after the tariff we had a trade deficit, imports greater than exports. Yes,imports fell as a result of the tariff, but our exports to other countries fell even more.
Still nothing to do with your assertion that Tariffs caused the great depression.
I never made that assertion. I do suggest that Smoot-Hawley
made the Great Depression worse.
There were many factors that produced the Great Depression:
the stock market crash, the crop failures in the midwest, and the collapse of the banking system because the FED did not do it job-a job it was assigned when formed-provide for an elastic currency.