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Identify the effects of the smoot-Hawley tariff act of 1930.

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Answer: it made the cost of buying products overseas too expensive.

Explanation: the tariff act made a large tax placed on goods imported to the US. This made foreign nations refuse US goods since they couldn't afford it.

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Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, U.S. legislation (June 17, 1930) that raised import duties to protect American businesses and farmers, adding considerable strain to the international economic climate of the Great Depression

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