Quotes About Imports

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

If there is any action that punishes imports to the North American market and encourages U.S. exports, you have to reflect it in a mirror action to counteract the change of incentives that this would make for activity and investment in Mexico.

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

Imports are Christmas morning; exports are January's MasterCard bill. P.J. O'ROURKE

Hope and change were a luxury, folks seemed to be telling us, exotic imports that would wilt in the heat.

China is the world's biggest exporter, but they're also the people with one of the highest tariffs on imports in the whole world. That seems a little bit oxymoronic.

It is not good to cut exports or imports.

Trump's more outre economic ideas, like repealing trade bills and implementing a massive surcharge on imports, would seem like non-starters in a Republican-led House and Senate, except when you consider a second point as a kind of syllogism: Republicans fear their angry, white electorate. Their angry, white electorate chose Donald Trump.

We entered the global market only in the end-'80s, and that was because imports became more liberal.

You cannot artificially curb gold imports beyond a point. But I am hopeful it will happen because the rupee depreciation should by itself lead to a large growth in exports and some compression of imports.

As a continent, I think there are opportunities for Asia to accept imports of Wyoming coal.

The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw thousands out of work.

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

Free Trade puts consumers at the centre of economic activity. It lowers the cost of imports, which gives people the opportunity to buy more with the same amount of money: domestic producers have to compete with the lowest global costs or invest in new business.

I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

Free trade is the way to bring jobs and prosperity.

Our trade opens to all the world.

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

American consumers benefit from free trade and investment.

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.

You don't need to be within the single market to trade; it's not an issue.

I've seen the impact of poorly negotiated trade agreements on manufacturing in Maine.

Free trade agreements are never for one sector alone.

Every dollar a foreigner spends over here directly subtracts a dollar from the trade deficit.