The Smoot-Hawley Tariff, and the retaliatory tariffs by U.S. trading partners that followed afterwards, reduced American exports and imports by more than half.

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Retaliatory tariffs would be likely.

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It also seized the occasion to announce that it is considering retaliatory measures against America's illegal steel tariffs.

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