Tariffs Quotes

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?

[We must] teach the advocates for an open trade the folly as well as degradation of their policy.

Economies that are open to trade grow faster.

We need open, competitive, market economies... but at the same time with effective regulation and supervision.

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Before Trump, trade policy ceded our manufacturing strength to foreign nations.

The overwhelming number of Democrats... think our trade policy has gone in the wrong direction. They think that our trade policy encourages companies to leave the country. They think our trade policy has caused more and more businesses to outsource.

International economic cooperation has delivered benefits to the United States and other countries that would have been impossible to attain otherwise.

Mexican exports worldwide benefit the U.S. economy because of their high percentage of U. S. content.

By definition, by reducing our trade deficit we will be hurting consumers. Consumers are always better off with a trade deficit.

U.S. trade policy has been a disaster for American workers.

As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.

Like all Canadians, I was deeply frustrated by the decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to impose tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum. Conservatives are the party of free trade, and numerous Conservative MPs, including our leader Andrew Scheer, have travelled to the United States to help make the case for Canada.

When you export unprocessed goods, in simple words, you are exporting jobs, taxes, and other key economic opportunities... it is high time we stopped this outdated trade system.

Increased trade is crucial to a balanced plan for stimulating growth and job creation on both sides of the Atlantic.

When someone says, `Let's impose tariffs on foreign imports,' it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works - but only for a short time....over the long run such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer. Markets shrink and collapse; businesses and industries shut down; and millions of people lose their jobs.

In 200 years when the United States will get all that it can from protectionism, it too will adopt free trade.

Tariffs, quotas and other import restrictions protect the business of the rich at the expense of high cost of living for the poor. Their intent is to deprive you of the right to choose, and to force you to buy the high-priced inferior products of politically favored companies.

The last thing a Trump administration plans is a trade war. The issue simply is getting a decent trade deal with each of the major trading partners.

Trade is critical to us all - it ensures we have what we need to live, that the NHS gets the equipment it needs to save lives, and that developing countries can prosper.

I said these trade deals are going to be terrible: we're going to lose manufacturing jobs, factories abroad; the real wages of Americans are not going to rise. People are coming across the border; it has got to be stopped.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

When a nation devalues its currency, it, in effect, increases its tariffs.

Trade creates jobs.

In my home district, exports support more than 100,000 jobs. Imagine how many more jobs we can create by breaking down the barriers that prevent Chicago-made goods and services from entering new markets.