Quotes About Trade

those who trade freedom for safety deserve neither

Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.

President Herbert Hoover had tried to preserve the gold standard by means of trade restrictions; Roosevelt maneuvered in the other direction, moving away from multilateralism in money while trying to preserve it in trade.

For those without personal wealth or political authority a trade union card and a ballot paper are the only two routes to political power.

Through trade reforms, Latin American countries can boost their competitiveness in markets for goods and services.

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia, without regard to time or place or quantity.

If we don't set the rules for commerce in the Asia-Pacific region, China will.

We should reconsider greater integration of North America to achieve a region that is more competitive and capable of creating more jobs.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership has the potential to reshape America's relationship with the nations of the Pacific Rim, enhance U.S. leadership in this critically important region, and provide a major boost to our economy.

The important desideratum is freedom of the market; a country or region will often best develop, depending on conditions of resources or the market, by concentrating on one or two items and then exchanging them for other items produced elsewhere.

Given that trade benefited the Asian economies on the way up, it seems natural that the slowdown in global trade, whatever its causes, could lead to some loss of dynamism and growth in the region.

What I'm absolutely certain of is, every day we delay in accessing that Asia-Pacific region, the more we lose economically.

Trump has said he will dismantle the North American Free Trade Agreement. This would be hugely harmful for Canada and the U.S. and for integration in the region.

Free-trade enthusiasts fret that regional trade arrangements divert more trade than they create.

After securing security, we can be confident that our achievements will be safeguarded and also have the capacity to construct infrastructure such as regional railways, airports, and highways that will facilitate trade and help us to integrate faster.

Our unique selling point as a country is global, not regional. Our industries have a pitch to the world, rather than simply trade with Europe.

NAFTA will continue to regulate the relationship between Mexico and Canada.

If we have an agreement with a country like Mexico, that doesn't support or protect the rights of workers, that doesn't have the same environmental regulations, how can Canadians ever compete with that jurisdiction?

Protectionism in all its forms should be rejected, and efforts should be made to discipline measures that constitute barriers to trade.

Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.

We are conscious of the need to maintain good relations with the United States. We have a border of more than 3,000 kilometers; more than 12 million Mexicans live in the United States. It is our main economic-commercial partner.

We have to work towards free trade because otherwise we will miss out on many opportunities for cooperation, and relations amongst countries will become much more difficult.