Quotes About Imports

I think there's no such thing as free trade. I think there has to be fair trade.

One thinks that one is winning when we slap tariffs or introduce barriers to imports from another country, and we think we win. But you lose when you export because the other countries are going to raise tariffs as well. They're going to introduce barriers as well. So you win with one hand and you lose with the other.

Texas is made for trade.

In almost every case, whenever a tariff or quota is imposed on imports, that tax is strongly supported by the domestic industry getting the protective shield from lower-priced foreign competition. The sugar industry supports sugar tariffs; textile mills lobby for tariffs on foreign clothing.

the surplus products must be laden on board the vessels.

I fully support global commerce.

Trade and globalization are here to stay.

The USMCA is a good deal for American agriculture.

The rules of origin in NAFTA need some tightening. Rules of origin are what let material outside of NAFTA to come in and benefit from all the taxes and tariff reductions within NAFTA.

Trade balances are determined by national savings propensities, not exchange rates.

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.

There are some who want to move us back to the days when we were protectionists and keep all goods off our shores.

Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.

The Canadian economy relies on foreign trade. Nearly three-quarters of Canada's exports go south.

The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement.

You may be cajoled into imagining that your own special trade or your own industry will be encouraged by a protective tariff, but it stands to reason that such legislation must in the long run keep away wealth from the country, diminish the value of our imports, and lower the general conditions of life in this island.

Through America's ports and harbors flow billions of dollars of products made by others, and sold in America for consumption by Americans. In 2007 the trade deficit was $712 Billion dollars. That's almost three-quarters of a Trillion dollars. Of the total U.S. international waterborne trade, the United States imports approximately 76 percent of value of its total trade, and exports 24 percent.

One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

By 2020, 50 percent of imports should be reduced, which should become 75 percent by 2025. By 2030, India should be energy independent.

Renaming a class at one level is really easy; you just change the name. But how do you change all the references to that class and all the imports?

I have worked out that I am virtually Chinese, because everything I own is from China.

I don't know that free trade... is good for our country and good for Iowa and Iowa workers.

In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.

Laws that prohibit imports of foreign goods create monopolies at home and impoverish the public by condemning the country to restricted abundance, high prices, and, in Britain's case, "the rude produce [of] its own soil.