 Complete the following phrase:  U.S. President Herbert Hoover signed the SmootHawley Tariff Act into law on June 17, 1930. The tariffs aim was to protect agriculture in the United States, but congressional representatives ultimately raised tariffs on a host of manufactured goods resulting in average duties as high as 53 on over a thousand various goods. Twenty-five trading partners responded in kind by introducing new tariffs on a wide range of U.S. goods. Hoover was pressured and compelled to adhere to the Republican Partys 1928 platform, which sought protective tariffs to alleviate market pressures on the nations struggling agribusinesses and reduce the domestic unemployment rate. The culmination of the 