Under Hulls stewardship:
Low tariffs improved the economies of the Latin American countries that had been hurt by the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930, especially for Cuban sugar.
Hull convened the Seventh Montevideo-Pan-American Conference in 1933 in Uruguay, where he committed to a policy of non-intervention into the affairs of Latin American countries. As evidence of his commitment, U.S. Marines were removed from Haiti in 1934 and Congress signed a treaty with Cuba nullifying the Platt Amendment