Quotes About Trade

The office of U.S. Trade Representative was created in order to permit corporations to write law that serves only their interests.

I think China represents huge opportunities for Europe.

I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.

Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains.

In the NBA, you're never immune to rumors and trade rumors and free agency stuff.

I believe that trade is essential for economic growth and development around the world, but I also believe that trade is imperfect.

I have been advocating for a long time that the Export Import Bank shouldn't be for one or two companies, and that's what it's for, basically.

China is the world's biggest exporter, but they're also the people with one of the highest tariffs on imports in the whole world. That seems a little bit oxymoronic.

It is not good to cut exports or imports.

Trump's more outre economic ideas, like repealing trade bills and implementing a massive surcharge on imports, would seem like non-starters in a Republican-led House and Senate, except when you consider a second point as a kind of syllogism: Republicans fear their angry, white electorate. Their angry, white electorate chose Donald Trump.

We entered the global market only in the end-'80s, and that was because imports became more liberal.

You cannot artificially curb gold imports beyond a point. But I am hopeful it will happen because the rupee depreciation should by itself lead to a large growth in exports and some compression of imports.

U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market.

As a continent, I think there are opportunities for Asia to accept imports of Wyoming coal.

We can't give the impression to our allies or friends in Asia that because the president is against TPP... that therefore, economically, we're going to pull away from Asia.

I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.

If governments start to go it alone on trade, it will become harder, not easier, to generate the jobs and rising incomes that angry electorates want.

If you start free trade with a Communist country, allow them to develop their own businesses, they don't remain communistic. They become a free society when they're able to make money themselves, and we increase trade with them and allow them to really produce products.

The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable?

If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?

Well, Sir, what have we done for them? Have we conquered the country for them from the Indians? Have we cleared it? Have we drained it? Have we made it habitable? What have we done for them? I believe precisely nothing at all, but just keeping watch and ward over their trade, that they should receive nothing but from ourselves, and at our own price.

at the height of the British slave trade, in the 1790s, one large slave vessel left England for Africa every other day.

The number of slave voyages included in the database has now risen to thirty-five thousand, accounting for the forced migration of more than twelve million Africans between 1514 and 1866, a million more than were estimated at the time of the conference in 1998.

The Root of evil Avarice, That damn ill-natur'd baneful vice, Was slave to Prodigality, That Noble Sin; whilst Luxury Employ'd a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more. Envy it self, and Vanity Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness In Diet, Furniture, and Dress, That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made The very Wheel, that turn'd the Trade.