Payne-Aldrich tariff

The Payne-Aldrich tariff of 1909 reduced the United States tariff rate to 37%. As President William Howard Taft had requested more reduction, this tariff split the Republican party into Progressives and Old Guard.

See also:

• McKinley tariff of 1890
• Wilson-Gorman tariff of 1894
• Dingley tariff of 1897