Sherrod Brown Quotes

This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest.

In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition.

China is the most protectionist country of the very large countries. They talk more about free trade than they actually practice.

If there is any action that punishes imports to the North American market and encourages U.S. exports, you have to reflect it in a mirror action to counteract the change of incentives that this would make for activity and investment in Mexico.

All the U.S. is asking for is free, fair trade.

I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.

China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

A liberal economy doesn’t mean opening wide the doors for imports.

We must have a national tariff policy.

Everybody talks about tariffs as the first thing. Tariffs are the last thing. Tariffs are part of the negotiation. The real trick is going to be increase American exports. Get rid of some of the tariff and non-tariff barriers to American exports.

Consider trade protectionism. It's been tried - and found wanting - since the Great Depression.

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

Ask anybody on Main Street whether it makes any sense to allow foreign countries to charge higher tariffs than we charge them, and the answer will surely be a resounding 'heck no!'

Years of passivity and drift among U.S. policymakers have allowed the U.S. - China trade deficit to grow to the point where is widely recognized as a major threat to our economy.

Bill Clinton was for NAFTA. I heard him over in Tokyo he came out all said it was a great bill. Secretary Clinton was for it. She called it the gold standard when she was secretary of state.

I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.

We all know that China is not a free trader. That's the reality.

America's trade policy has an enormous impact on the economic well-being of the American people and the strategic interests of the United States.

We have to put Canadian working families first. I'm going to do that, from trade to our own domestic economic response post-COVID.

To ensure fair competition, there must be effective controls on currency manipulation, and monopoly pricing needs to be outlawed on such items as intellectual property, especially pharmaceuticals.

Trump stood up to the failed Biden trade doctrine that filled our shelves with Chinese goods and loaded our ships with American jobs headed overseas.

We all share an interest in seeing China offer greater market access and eliminate unfair trade practices, and together we can insist China take the necessary steps to allow its economy to operate more fairly.

How does allowing China to constantly rig trade in its favor advance the core conservative goal of making markets more efficient?