Trade Fairness Quotes

I think there's no such thing as free trade. I think there has to be fair trade.

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

When it comes to China, there are genuine giants that need to be conquered and dragons to tame. Protecting intellectual property rights and leveling the playing field for international trade are serious matters that must be resolved. But that will happen through honest negotiation.

We need fair and free trade.

I really believe in U.S. manufacturing and U.S. exports, but we have to have a level playing field.

My fellow economists and academics fail to understand the economics of trade in the real world. Traditional models of academia respect free trade without considering whether it is 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.

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Marxists are coming around to seeing my views on the economy with greater perspective. I was the one who propounded that there should be a 'level-playing field' among nations on the economic front, that they cannot have low-interest rates in their countries and argue against cheap labour in India.

The American people want to make sure that the rules of the game are fair. And what that means is that if you look at surveys around Americans' attitudes on trade, the majority of the American people still support trade. But they're concerned about whether or not trade is fair, and whether we get the same access to other countries' markets that they have with us. Is there just a race to the bottom when it comes to wages, and so forth.

I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

I want to be a fair trader. I want to be a firm and fair trader.

We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation.

Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in.