Quotes About Imports

If any vestige of the American automobile industry is to survive, it must involve state-of-the-art vehicles that are not equal to but surpass the best imports in every way.

The effects of discriminating duties upon imports have been referred to in a former chapter—favoring the manufacturing region, which was the North; burdening the exporting region, which was the South; and so imposing upon the latter a double tax:

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

Louisiana is a trade powerhouse.

I agree with President Trump that we should have an America First trade policy.

We're in a trade war. We've been in a trade war for decades. That's why we have the deficit.

American people, always in search of a bargain in the name of saving money, send the money they earn to countries that produce these low-cost bargains. That money costs them their jobs and as well as our country's wealth.

The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates.

Import and substituting imports with domestic production are a big opportunity. With a devaluation of the rupee, imports get expensive, and for Indian manufacturers, this creates a huge opportunity.

The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially.

All the U.S. is asking for is free, fair trade.

The United States still had not escaped economic dependence on England, which consumed nearly half of American exports and accounted for three-quarters of American imports.

We have to learn to live with fewer imports and more exports, promoting national production.

Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?

The U.S. tends to export high-tech goods because we have strong comparative advantage there, and we tend to import labor-intensive and less skill-intensive goods that other countries can do more cheaply.

There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.

In 1955 Australia and Canada supplied 61 per cent of British wheat imports, while Australia and New Zealand contributed 60 per cent of its meat imports. By contrast, the Six remained a net importer of food until 1958.47 As late as 1960, two-thirds of British exports and perhaps 90 per cent of capital investment went outside Europe.48

Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE.

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

Imported consumer goods were either banned or enormously expensive due to high tariffs,

Much of what we buy relies on products from the EU - purchases that British importers make in euros.

We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.

We are in favor of free trade.

We need fair and free trade.