Quotes About Import

Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.

There's trade, there's sensible trade, and there's dumb trade.

Inhumanity is always easier to structure than anything else. For that job, Russia never had to import the know-how. In fact, the one way for that country to get rich is to import it.

I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature round about us, as understood today. There's no real conflict between science and religion ... What is in conflict is the science of 2000 BC ... and the science of the 20th century AD.

I believe America's chief strategic vulnerability is our dependence on imported petroleum.

India itself is an import, or if you prefer, Africa outsourced India.

By 1971 the United States had an unfavorable balance of international trade for the first time since 1893.

America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!

In the U.S. there are many people willing to work on $9 per hour, which is causing Tasmania to lose its famous apple industry and Australia to import more and more of its fruit and food from lower cost countries. In fact, all over Australia there are warning signs of us killing or restricting our own industries.

Even outside the EEC, global trade grew as new multilateral organizations like the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs pushed for lower import tariffs across the world. The IMF helped, monitoring exchange rates so that no country attempted to get an undue advantage from the increased openness by depreciating its exchange rate and exporting more—the "beggar-thy-neighbor" strategy that was much feared during the Great Depression.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

Growth will be slower. The vast consumer market that is America may no longer be the principal global economic driver it has been, and countries intent on creating jobs for their people will be much slower to import our goods.

Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.

Most of the food imported to Russia came from China.

Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity.

Confucianism and Taoism were native to China, but its third religion, Buddhism, was an import from India.

Foreign opium imported into China was chiefly produced in British India and shipped solely from British ports.

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

I'd have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I'd ban the ones made in China.

Het eerste waar Nederlanders aan denken, als ze iets willen verkrijgen dat hun eigen land niet oplevert, is niet het zelf te gaan maken, maar het te zoeken in den vreemde.

Wealth is not the only, nor the most valuable commodity, which Britain might import from India.80

The forces that drove Britain and the United States to control the world's shipping lanes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, respectively, first saw light of day in Greece's need to feed itself with imported wheat and barley.