Quotes About Trade

Withdrawing support from globalization is taking us in the wrong direction.

The overwhelming number of Democrats... think our trade policy has gone in the wrong direction. They think that our trade policy encourages companies to leave the country. They think our trade policy has caused more and more businesses to outsource.

The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.

But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively.

People can yawn all they want when a conservative mentions the tax system. But there is no doubt that when we have a tax system that punishes businesses and workers for producing then it becomes financially advantageous for everyone just to import cheaper goods from abroad.

We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.

Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.

Upon leaving the E.U., Britain will find itself with more opportunities for economic innovation than at any time in almost 50 years.

I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.

Let's stop trading freedom for the illusion of security.

The U.K. wants and needs closer trading partnerships with African nations - and Africa needs much more capital.

I wasn't going to play in New York. By trading me to Orlando, I got a chance to play.

We have always been at our best as a country when we have been a global trading nation and this role offers us the best prospects for growing our future prosperity.

In the U.K., we have always been an open, trading nation, enriched by our global links. Contemporary patterns of migration extend this tradition.

The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.

It's tragic that there are so few farmer-direct coffees in Africa, but it's very tough.

English businesses would face massive transaction costs if Scotland, their second biggest export market, used a different currency.

Financial transaction tax raises problems of competition.

The first time you went to eBay, you probably didn't do a transaction.

The Trump vision, in fact, is an America unbound by a half-century of trade deals, free to pursue a nationalistic approach in which success is measured not by the quality of its alliances but the economic return on its transactions.

Trade transcends party lines here in Washington, and it unifies stakeholders across the globe.

Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa.

Things are expensive, very expensive in Israel for many reasons. One of the reasons is our ports. It's a monopoly. They run very poorly. And we have ships that are stuck in the ocean for three or four days or a week, and all that cost is transferred to the products and the consumer.

I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU directives.