Quotes About Trade

Trade wars in which countries are then obliged to retaliate by raising their own tariffs against the initiator undermine growth and hurt consumers. Far from being expressions of strength they highlight the failure of the initiating country's economic sector to compete in the global market place.

The global 'currency wars' are likely here to stay due to the fine line between legitimate monetary balancing and sometimes self-serving trade manipulation. But these artificial mechanisms lack tangible or lasting value.

When the International Trade Centre, the agency I head, works with German electronics giant Bosch to help Kenyan food processing companies boost their productivity and export competitiveness, we may well be creating future customers for Bosch washing machines.

He vowed that the thought of her should continue ever before him to help him keep his hands as clean as a man might in this desperate trade upon which he was embarking. And so, although he might entertain no delusive hope of ever winning her for his own, of ever seeing her again, yet the memory of her was to abide in his soul as a bitter-sweet, purifying influence. The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.

Even outside the EEC, global trade grew as new multilateral organizations like the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs pushed for lower import tariffs across the world. The IMF helped, monitoring exchange rates so that no country attempted to get an undue advantage from the increased openness by depreciating its exchange rate and exporting more—the "beggar-thy-neighbor" strategy that was much feared during the Great Depression.

Why are poorer developing countries like China financing the unsustainable consumption of rich countries like the United States?

These strongly Aristotelian attitudes, which still dominate many societies today, reflected a suspicion of the middleman. They were thought to make money not by adding intrinsic value to the traded item, but by moving goods or money to areas of shortage, or even, many believed, by creating the shortage in the first place.

A Woman trading her beauty for attention is same as a Man exhibiting his intelligence, for these primary survival instincts have been instrumental in the evolution of society.

The founders of Brown University, Nicholas and Joseph Brown, got their wealth by manufacturing and selling slave ships and investing in the slave trade. –The Black Holocaust for Beginners, S. E. Anderson

By such wicked and inhuman ways the English are said to enslave toward one hundred thousand yearly; of which thirty thousand are supposed to die by barbarous treatment in the first year; besides all that are slain in the unnatural wars excited to take them. So much innocent blood have the managers and supporters of this inhuman trade to answer for to the common Lord of all.

IF MY CLIENTS offer a business

Economics is war pursued by other means.

We have such a marvelous interplay between Canada and the United States.

We have to put Canadian working families first. I'm going to do that, from trade to our own domestic economic response post-COVID.

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

Capitalism doesn't care about sentimentality.

Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.

London is a very important financial centre.

For centuries our wealth has come from our ambition, entrepreneurial skills and global reach.

As the CEO of a global company I think countries are foregoing opportunities by having cabotage rules.

The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.

Under Ceta the E.U. checks products coming from Canada to ensure they do not originate in any other country - because if they did, they would be subject to E.U. tariffs. The same would happen if the U.K. had a Canada-style deal with the E.U.

Most of the food imported to Russia came from China.

China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.