Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Trade war" in English language version.
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Other writers even blame the historically high Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930 for causing the Depression itself. But [...] the Fordney-McCumber rates, as one historian puts it, were 'already ... high enough to cause a depression if a tariff can have such a result.' [...] Both the Fordney-McCumber and the Hawley-Smoot tariffs are better regarded as symptoms, not causes, of economic distress in 1921 and 1929, respectively.
