Quotes About Trade

If China is doing business with a company that ends up putting money back into proliferation activities, then we'll sanction that company and China.

Tariffs have almost never saved a domestic industry from decline and, often times, by sheltering domestic producers from competition, only reward and prolong bad business practices.

Obama and Kuczynski each promised to do all they could to enact the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

It's amazing how many countries run their embassies as commercial outposts to promote businessmen from their country.

It's very clear that TPP was promoted by corporate interests, it was driven by ideology, not by economic science. And when they started looking at the net trade benefits, they are miniscule.

We have to learn to live with fewer imports and more exports, promoting national production.

With proper infrastructure and packaging, India can certainly become a global player in agricultural exports.

We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.

To guard and to deal with others' goods as one's own is considered as the mark of proper trade among merchants.

Opening the Pandora's box of tariffs will be an endless game, and it will be a lose-lose proposition.

The fact is that during the post-1989 heyday of globalization optimism, political and business elites did not think enough about the prospect - plainly predicted in economic theory - that trade would harm some people even while leaving society as a whole better off. The result was overpromised benefits and inadequate adjustment plans.

Going over to L.A., L.A. giving up a lot of prospects for me, that kind of shows you what I meant to them, which is amazing.

Free to set our own laws, Brexit should act as a catalyst for a new era of prosperity for an outward-looking U.K. ambitious in removing barriers to trade, enterprise and economic growth.

Products made in America can lead to prosperity.

Until the Chinese decide to compete fairly it will be up to us to do what we can to further protect our manufacturing base, and ensure we keep the good paying jobs we already have.

Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.

We shouldn't leave the E.U. until we have trade protection at least as good.

The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system.

Trade protectionism has an American lineage dating back to the Founders; that lineage is distinct from white nationalism.

The E.U., China, and Japan all talk free trade, and they all practice protectionism.

Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.

Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.

Protectionism is something that will hurt everybody, but especially the United States.

Let's not pretend we're in a global free market when it comes to agriculture. Every country protects, for good reason, its agricultural industries.