Imported Goods Quotes

Just about everything I own was made in China. Just about everything you own was made in China, too.

I am baffled by many Western politicians who continually blame low-cost imported goods for their own economic challenges.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.

But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States can no longer keep its business system fluid by inflation.

It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.

'Commonwealth' is not a word I ever used growing up in Colombo. There, in the late 1950s, it would have meant little more than New Zealand lamb and Anchor butter at the cold stores.

I like wearing the things from Japan, because they usually get a different collection than we do.

You couldn't buy any English authors or anything that came from America, like jeans. It was impossible. So we had to do our own clothes if we had weird ideas like wearing long scarves like the French people did. You had to knit them yourself.

The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.

Imported prayer beads—how they are bankrupting local merchants.

Immediate restrictions must be introduced to drastically reduce imports. We waste millions of dollars on provocative imported commodities, like dog food, nuts, and ice cream.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers. You must strengthen your manufacturing sector and put it on a level playing field with the world. Any kind of items manufactured globally, like small pens, pencils, notebooks - our manufactured goods need to be on a level playing field. Then let them come. Have a competition.

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

When you taste a mango in the United States, it's just tasteless.

Just because we can ship organic lettuce from the Salinas Valley, or organic cut flowers from Peru, doesn't mean we should do it, not if we're really serious about energy and seasonality and bioregionalism.