Quotes About Trade

We are a nation of shop keepers.

The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform the possibilities into fact...Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Money, or its equivalents, are essential in war as well as in peace.

If a middle-class family in Shanghai or Guangzhou is looking for a good-quality product, we want them to look at a maple leaf and say, 'OK, it's good quality.'

You don't know who was going to trade up or if you're going to end up dropping to a team that needs a quarterback.

European exporters will be paying twice as much duty on stuff they sell to the U.K. because they sell twice as much stuff as we sell to them. We would then have quite a lot of money to support our industries in ways that we choose when we leave the E.U.

Railway network will support efforts to diversify the economy and enhance our export potentials.

Chinese President Xi Jinping says that if Canada wants free access to Chinese markets, Trudeau should first ram a pipeline to the B.C. coast on China's behalf.

Leaving the E.U. with no trade deal is the worst possible option. It will condemn British exporters to the full range of tariffs and barriers that apply under WTO rules.

China wants to take our economic place in the world and, in doing so, will devastate our economy at the expense of our future and our families' futures.

We had a great chance in the mid-2000s to reach an accord with the Chinese on both energy and environmental issues. That deal would have essentially been that the U.S. could provide the equipment and expertise, and the Chinese would help close the trade gap. It was a huge opportunity that we failed to exploit.

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

We want to generate jobs in the U.S.

I have learned some core lessons along the way. Among the most important, I have become a firm believer that a strong geopolitical relationship can be born out of a strong economic relationship, which often begins with trade.

There are 1600 German companies active in India, and some of them are more than 100 years old. Our companies value India as a location for manufacturing and as a market.

You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.

I fully support global commerce.

E.U. is the first global domestic market.

Filipino businessmen must have the ability to compete freely in the global economy.

The United States is a nation located in the global economy, and we get enormous, enormous benefits from dealing with foreigners.

This new global economy, it's all based on the sea routes.

Leaving the E.U. enables the U.K. to be more engaged with the global economy, not just the European economy.

This is a global economy. If you're not at the bargaining table, if you don't get an agreement, someone else does.