Quotes About Imports

We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.

The United States is already Mexico's largest trading partner.

In this 21st century world, some of our country's most significant exports and imports extend beyond goods and services: They also include innovation, knowledge, discovery, and healing.

We can't have our industry progressively destroyed by cheap Chinese imports.

Free trade is meaningless unless there is also fair trade.

But free trade is meaningless unless there is also fair trade.

Page 199: According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Statistics, more than 20 percent of all imports to the United States come from foreign subsidiaries or affiliates of U.S. multinational corporations. … This is why American business is so adamantly opposed to tariffs—not fear of foreign retaliation, but fear of tariffs on products from American-owned industrial plantations.

The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

It is exports that pay for imports, and vice versa. The greater exports we have, the greater imports we must have, if we ever expect to get paid.

When they make it a main objective to increase exports, most of them do not realize that they necessarily make it a main objective ultimately to increase imports.

In the five years from 2007 to 2012, we only gained a little over 1,200 farmers. Since we aren't going to stop eating, we have to reverse that trend, or we'll see even more consolidation, more corporate farms, or increasing food imports; none of that is in our interest.

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.

Our gain from foreign trade is what we import. Exports are the price we pay to get imports. As Adam Smith saw so clearly, the citizens of a nation benefit from getting as large a volume of imports as possible in return for its exports, or equivalently, from exporting as little as possible to pay for its imports.

Mexico is intensely affected by all kinds of things that are shipped into this country from the United States.

More and more of our imports come from overseas.

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

Turkey's energy bill due to imports will fall with the increase in use of renewable energy sources. We have no control over the prices of petroleum and natural gas.

Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesn't have enough money to import much of anything, either.

[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more.

Marty Feldstein, who explained clearly how America's trade deficit came about. He said: "foreign import barriers and exports subsidies are not the reason for the US trade deficit… the real reason is that Americans are spending more than they produce…

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.