This is stupid and ahistorical. Smoot raised tariffs from very high to slightly higher. Eichengreen and others have shown it had no real economic effect. Volumes of trade fell because of Depression, not Smoot 1/2https://nyti.ms/2G9Tam4
I think it would've been very hard to have any substantial free trade in 1930s give autarkic governments in Europe & Asia. Free trade regime only possible after war
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The western states didn't need free trade back then because they had their empires. Free trade only became widespread after the end of the European empires in the Post WWII era
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Sure, but ending those empires was also pushed by American policy (precisely to avoid return to interwar autarky)
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exactly
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