Export Markets Quotes

Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.

When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.

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

In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese - they all want us to get Brexit done so that we can begin negotiations and forge new relationships that will open up new markets for British businesses, create jobs and attract new investment.

Oil, Jews and Germans, are our most important export commodities.

As mayor, I've traveled to China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Mexico to meet with heads of state and business leaders to promote trade with L.A. companies and through L.A.'s seaports and airports - because that generates L.A. jobs.

Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our capacity to meet the severe competition to which we are exposed; and nothing but a system of high protective duties, long continued, can prevent us from meeting it successfully. It is that which we have to fear.

U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets.

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

When Interest is less, Trade is incourag'd, and the Merchant can be a Gainer; whereas, when it is great, the Usurer, or Money-owner takes all. The Dutch, with whom Interest is low, Trade cheaper, and under-sell us.

The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.

The farmers in America who are raising wheat and beef and cotton, and the great multitudes engaged in manufacture, depend for the rewards of their labor largely upon the orderly continuance of purchase, consumption and payment by the people of other countries. It would be a real misfortune to the American breakfast table if Brazil ceased to produce coffee and Cuba ceased to produce sugar and China ceased to produce tea.

Farmers and ranchers need long-term certainty about who they will be able to sell to and under what terms.

Canada's total exports into global markets reached a record high of $528.8 billion in 2014, the last year with fully available figures. A mere $18.8 billion of those exports went to China.

The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

Now, the impact on export markets - we export about 10 percent of what we produce, so obviously that will probably have some impact on the market. At this point it's too early to determine how much.

Wealthy nations cannot grow richer unless they have customers beyond their border.

Grapes are grown in such profusion in the Southern and Western States that I have seen damaged bunches thrown to the pigs. Americans find it difficult to understand how highly this fruit is prized in England.

I believe the Chinese are gradually realizing that they're dependent on the system that, as they run out of energy, for example, they have to reach out to foreign sources for energy, for raw materials. They have to reach out to the world for markets. They have to export. They have to maintain full employment. They've got a terrible population problem. So they need a stable world, in a way.

Growth at home depends on growth abroad.

Our present system of handling farm products is altogether too costly. American wheat undersells English wheat in the English market, because of the extensive use of economical machinery in the United States.

If another euro country fails, so does Slovakia. Our economy is 80% open and if the citizens of Spain and Portugal have no money to buy cars made here in Slovakia then that will be bad for us. Everything is connected.

When the International Trade Centre, the agency I head, works with German electronics giant Bosch to help Kenyan food processing companies boost their productivity and export competitiveness, we may well be creating future customers for Bosch washing machines.