Quotes About Exports

Smoot and Hawley ginned up The Tariff Act of 1930 to get America back to work after the Stock Market Crash of '29. Instead, it destroyed trade so effectively that by 1932, American exports to Europe were just a third of what they had been in 1929. World trade fell two-thirds as other nations retaliated. Jobs evaporated.

As commerce secretary, I led the Clinton administration's effort to ensure China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the permanent normalization of trade between the U.S. and China - steps that produced a 76 percent increase in U.S. exports to China in just three years.

Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.

The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers, of which Saudi Arabia is at the top of the list.

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

Good. Wool prices are relatively steady and exports well up. We're still cornering the world market. England's cloth exports are averaging something like twenty-seven million running yards a year, the same as last year and the year before. Not bad at all.

At the time of the report, the entire Arab world exported fewer manufactured goods than the Philippines, had poorer Internet connectivity than sub-Saharan Africa, registered 2 percent as many patents per year as South Korea, and translated about a fifth as many books into Arabic as Greece translates into Greek.

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.

The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.

It is not good to cut exports or imports.

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.

U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market.

The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable?

I believe in removing barriers in international trade. Part of the reason is that this creates huge markets for all of our products.

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

The biggest opportunities from Brexit will come from more trade with the rest of the world.

I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

Free trade is the way to bring jobs and prosperity.

In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.

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.

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

American consumers benefit from free trade and investment.