Balance of Trade Quotes

Nor in truth, can Forreign Trade subsist without the Home Trade, both being connected together.

Will the shutting out of foreign goods increase the total amount of wealth in this country? Can foreign nations grow rich at our expense by selling us goods under cost price? Can a people tax themselves into prosperity? Can a man stand in a bucket and lift himself up by the handle?

Economies that are open to trade grow faster.

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Bilateral trade deficits are not evil; historically, better growth in the U.S. economy has led to larger trade deficits.

The Canadian economy relies on foreign trade. Nearly three-quarters of Canada's exports go south.

Britain has always been at its most successful when it's a trading nation.

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned from the '30s, it is a lesson we learned post-World War II, and it plays to our strengths.

As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.

If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one of them sinks, the rest are going to sink with them and if one floats, the rest are lifted up. I find that very interesting.

I do believe that international trade agreements benefit both nations, always.

Trade is part of our national security.

It is not repeated large Emissions [printing] of a base Paper-Currency, but our Imports exceeding our Exports, that occasions Silver to be ship'd off in Ballance

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.

Foreign trade can no longer be dealt with apart from other domestic economic policies and concerns. Governments often employ trade policies less for commercial ends than to achieve other goals- economic, political, and social.

Although a Kingdom may be enriched by gifts received, or by purchase taken from some other Nations, yet these are things uncertain and of small consideration when they happen. The ordinary means therefore to increase our wealth and treasure is by Foreign Trade

Chinese mercantilism is not free trade, but it is far better than American militarism.

Don't make such a big deal out of this trade deficit…. In the United States you cannot find anybody to produce such labor-intensive products and it will be more expensive if you were to import such products from other countries and the regions than China. Only China is in the best position to produce such products, and this is also beneficial to China because this has provided job opportunities to China.

We are only 5 percent of the world's population and 20 percent of the world's economy. We have to be able to trade in order to grow.

With open markets, the nation's trade deficit with China would shrink as we export more natural gas and agricultural products and as China's consumers could afford to buy their preferred 'Made in America' products.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

In the long run, trade works for America.