Quotes About Trade

While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes.

Over time, there's a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets week, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up. We saw it in the '70s, when the dollar was savagely weakened.

I don't trade on my sexual identity in that way for political points. I think that's lame, and it's not my style.

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

President Donald Trump's policies are not global but inward-looking.

I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.

In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition.

Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.

While government clearly plays the major role in fighting poverty through policies on things such as education, tax, and trade, business creates the wealth that matters.

Policies aimed at reversing globalization will lead only to a decrease in real income as goods become more expensive.

There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation.

We can't let the USMCA become another casualty of political games.

The globalization that has rescued so many in poor countries has harmed some people in rich countries, as factories and jobs migrated to where labor is cheaper.

ITC works to help firms in poor countries become more competitive and overcome the barriers that are keeping their goods and services out of international markets.

Poorly negotiated and lazily enforced trade deals have caused jobs to flee the heartland.

There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree of saving by the population. It's complicated, but if the population doesn't save, the economy will not tend to export as much, and if it doesn't export as much, it won't manufacture enough.

If someone thinks the course of Italian politics will become anti-European, against an open society, against trade, or populist, as they say today, the facts will prove them wrong.

When we first invested in Colombia, we were buying a lot of coal from Colombia. We were dealing with them daily. I knew their guys at the port, I knew their guys at the mine, I had a feel of the country.

Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.

We should be working with the governor of Sonora to establish a commercial sea port on the coast of their state.

Dhamra Port is a model of modern maritime trade in Odisha and a successful example of public-private partnership.

Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the '90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.