Quotes About Trade

We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.

Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.

Ensuring ports are dredged is essential to securing America's place in global trade.

Investing in ports with partners is a very common model for us.

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

The immediate impact of British imperial free-trading was often the collapse of local indigenous industries which were in no position to compete, and a consequent destruction of livelihoods and communities.

The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA's positive impact.

We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.

Post globalisation, the debate has been, 'How much more are we going to liberalise?'

Larger Post Panamax ships are critical to securing America's position in a global market, and all our ports, including Jaxport, must be deep enough to handle them.

We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.

Globalization obviously has the potential to be good. That doesn't mean it's good for everybody. There's a very large number of people in India and China who benefited directly from globalization, but it doesn't mean everybody in America benefits from globalization.

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.

I pour concrete. I'm a construction guy.

America has been living on the back of the whole world! If you take how much energy we consume, like, 20 percent of the world's energy is consumed in this country. Where do you think it comes from, and what are the sacrifices of those countries?

The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy.

I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.

I play the same, contract or no contract, because trade-talk is part of basketball.

Manufacturing is the seed corn for other jobs in the U.S.

Once we leave the E.U., we will be able to slash the £600 million of costs of Brussels bureaucracy that hold back our businesses.

In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.

The Black Sea is Eastern Europe's counterpart to the Mediterranean.

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.