The Hawley-Smoot Tariff

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff

A) actually lowered tariffs on foreign agricultural goods but raised them on manufactured goods.
B) was written and presented by President Hoover himself, so that he could address just how important an issue tariffs were.
C) raised tariffs on foreign goods an additional 25 percent to protect American manufacturers from foreign competition.
D) raised tariffs on foreign imports and proved disastrous as nations could not repay World War I debts and retaliated with high tariffs on U.S. imports to their countries.
E) aided economic recovery by limiting the number of European goods that could enter the U.S. and compete with U.S. manufacturers.